This is an analysis of the poem The Tombstone-Maker that begins with:
He primmed his loose red mouth and leaned his head
Against a sorrowing angel’s breast, and said: ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaaabb acXc dede
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 11001111101 01010010111 1111010111 01001010111 0111011111 0101011101 11010100101 10101010101 1101111101 1111001101 1110010101 1101110111 1111011101 1111011101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 215
- Average number of words per stanza: 39
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 45 (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.
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