This is an analysis of the poem The Mourners that begins with:
I look into the aching womb of night;
I look across the mist that masks the dead;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab cdcd adad efef bgbg hahaXcbcb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1100010101 1101011101 01010111101 011101 0101110101 0111000101 1111011101 011111 0111111111 1101010111 1101010101 111101 01011100101 1111001111 0001100100 010001 1111111101 1111110101 1111011001 010101 1101010111 1111110001 1101110101 111101 1111010101 1101010101 1100010111 110101
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 169
- Average number of words per stanza: 31
- Amount of lines: 28
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, some, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words i, the, and are repeated.
The author used the same word the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of The Mourners;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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