This is an analysis of the poem Dead You Say that begins with:
The owner of millions, he smiling stood
And gazed through the window in laughing mood ; ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbaX cX XX ddeecX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,2,2,6,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 0100101101 1110100101 1011000101 1110100101 110011101 111111010111 11111110111 110111101111 11101001001 111110101 1110111101 0011110101 11100111101 110101111 1110100101 11100101101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 179
- Average number of words per stanza: 37
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, ', he, she are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, ' are repeated.
The poet repeated the same word ' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase ' connects the lines.
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