This is an analysis of the poem Lines Written On Hearing The News Of The Death Of Napoleon that begins with:
What! alive and so bold, O Earth?
Art thou not overbold?... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXbabbbb baXabbbb abXabXbb abXabXbb abbabbbX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 10111111 111100 11011101 00101101 0100100101 111011101 1101110101 11110100101 1011111 11001111 10101110 11011101 11101101 10101011 01110010101 1101111101 111101011 1111101 00111100 10100111 111111011 111111010 1101010111 10101111001 101111101 11101111 01111100 100111011 111011011 101010100 1101000101 1111111111 101111101 1001101 0101111 01001001001 101011001 01001001 1100011101 1101100101
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 302
- Average number of words per stanza: 59
- Amount of lines: 40
- Average number of symbols per line: 37 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, and, i are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
The poet repeated the same word dead at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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