This is an analysis of the poem Two Graves that begins with:
First Ghost
To sepulcher my mouldy bones...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: a bbaacc ddeeaa ffXXgghh a bbeeaa iiggaa iiaaiXbb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,6,6,8,1,6,6,8,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11 01001101 11010101 11010101 01110100 01000101 01010001 11010101 01111011 01011111 01010101 11010101 01001100 101101101 11110101 010111100 01010111 11011111 11101101 11010101 11111101 101 01010111 01010101 11011101 01010111 11101111 11010100 01111101 100100111 11110101 01010101 11010101 01011111 01010111 11110101 11010001 01000101 01010111 11110100 11010101 11100111
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 171
- Average number of words per stanza: 34
- Amount of lines: 42
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
- 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; i, so, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word so is repeated.
The author used the same word the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase i connects the lines.
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