This is an analysis of the poem Burial Rites that begins with:
Everyone comes back here to die
as I will soon. The place feels right...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXcadefgfXbbgfheiXggdjehbXbceiXggjXib
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 38,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10111101 11010111 10110010 101011001 10100011 10010011 0111011 01101001 11011010 01011111 10111101 00110001 1110111 10010110 100111011 1100101 01011011 10101010 10010111 10101111 10010001 010011001 0111111 10101101 010111010 00011001 11100111 1110100 11110010 01110010 1111010 001100100 101001011 11010110 01001010 11001 01011010 10101111
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1193
- Average number of words per stanza: 234
- Amount of lines: 38
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; no, longer are repeated.
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- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
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