This is an analysis of the poem Ring Out Your Bells that begins with:
Ring out your bells, let mourning shows be spread;
For Love is dead--... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aAababCXDD aaceceCXDD aAXXXXCXDD aaXaXacXdD
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,10,10,10,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111110101 1101 1101010 010101 1111010 111111 0101010 0101110 001111 010101 1101111101 1101 0111010 010101 0011010 011001 0101010 0101110 001111 010101 1101110101 1101 1101100 110101 1101100 10101010 0101010 0101110 001111 010101 0111110101 1011 1011110 00011 1101010 111011 1101110 0111010 111101 010101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 287
- Average number of words per stanza: 51
- Amount of lines: 40
- Average number of symbols per line: 28 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; his, from are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words from, his, love are repeated.
The poet repeated the same word us at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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