This is an analysis of the poem Death Of A Naturalist that begins with:

All year the flax-dam festered in the heart
Of the townland; green and heavy headed...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abXcdedffXbXeeghhdgccXddbXaaaXdga
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 33,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 1101110001 0010111010 11101101111 10010001001 10101000110 1011010101 1010110101 1101101110 0101111010 001001110001 1111000010 101110111 1111111101 0100110010 1011111111 010111011 11110110101 1100101101 10111010111 1101000111 01 11111101 0100010101 01001111110 0011011111 01011100110 1101110101 11111101111 0111001111 1110111110 1101110111 0101110111 10111101110
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1450
  • Average number of words per stanza: 264
  • Amount of lines: 33
  • Average number of symbols per line: 43 (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, and are repeated.

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