This is an analysis of the poem The Dead that begins with:
A good man is seized by the police
and spirited away. Months later...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abacXcXddefXecddghijfXicbk acjdhciXfliialkfcmmgddgmh
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 26,25,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 001011001 110001110 11111111 101001 00101101 1011111 1111001000 0010010101 10100111 111101010 11101000010 0110011110000 10000101010 0011111 11100011 111010100 100100111 100100111 1101101 11110111 111111111 101010001 00110001001 1010111 00100010010 0110011100 1100101 111001101 11111101 1100111 01110101 01010011 010111111 10010110 101010001 1101101 10101111 10100110101 10110111 10011011 1011100 11011101 10011001 01011111 11111111 11001111 0101110 11011111 01101101 01001011 011010100
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 883
- Average number of words per stanza: 168
- Amount of lines: 51
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, one are repeated.
If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:
- summary of The Dead;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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