This is an analysis of the poem The Funeral Of Youth: Threnody that begins with:

The Day that Youth had died,
There came to his grave-side, ... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabbcabcXXdXadXXaaXeaaaaacXXfaaXgXXXgaehhidiadajbfjXXkkkjj
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 58,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: limerick
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 01110011 110011 0101000101 1101 11101010001 11011101110 0111110101 0111110001 11001101 11100 1001011101 110010 11010011111 101111 10011 0101110110 1101010101 10001111010001 110111110100 110101110011001 1101010 0101010 1100110010111 1111 010101000001 11010010101 010010100101100 0111001110000 1101110 101111110001 01001010101 111000 0100111011 1110000101000 110000101000 11011100000 11000110101 100011010101 110001001101 10001010101 100111110101 11000101 10011 1001111101 11010101001 10001110101 10000111100101 110111110011 10100111110 101111 11001100110101 0101001100011100 110001011100100 1011110100 11100100 10101110101 110111010001 10110101011101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 2584
  • Average number of words per stanza: 494
  • Amount of lines: 58
  • 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, i, her, d are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, and, i are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines d, i are repeated).

If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:

  • summary of The Funeral Of Youth: Threnody;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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