This is an analysis of the poem My Days Among The Dead Are Past that begins with:
My days among the Dead are past;
Around me I behold,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcc XdXdXb efefbb XcXXaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11010111 011101 1001100111 010101 11010111 01110111 00110101 110101 11110111 110011 111100100 01010101 11100100 110110 11011101 011111 10110111 01001101 11100110 110000 11001101 111000 11010111 10110001
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 189
- Average number of words per stanza: 36
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (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; their, with are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words with, and, my are repeated.
The author used the same word my at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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