This is an analysis of the poem Dinah In Heaven that begins with:

She did not know that she was dead,
But, when the pang was o'er,... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXab cada eXea bfbf bgbg dXdX hchc bibi dbdb ciaX IbiX fifi jijX IaiXXbhbh
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 10111111 1101110 11010101 010101 01111101 010001 11001101 010101 10010111 0101100 110001001 110101 11110101 110101 11110001 110101 11010101 111101 10011001 110101 10110101 110101 11110101 111111 110100101 110111 10101111 010101 100101001 110111 110010101 110101 110101001 1101101 11010100 1010001 101010101 110111 11001011 0101100 1001101101 110101 101101011 1110110 100110111 110101 11010001 110101 100110101 110101 10010101 1101110 1001101101 1011101 11111101011 11001010 111001001 000111 11010101 110101
  • Amount of stanzas: 16
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 120
  • Average number of words per stanza: 22
  • Amount of lines: 61
  • 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; that, she, from, and are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.

    The author used the same word neither at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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