This is an analysis of the poem A Hero's Grave that begins with:
O'er our evening fire the smoke is like a pall,
And funeral banners hang about the arches of the hall,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccdd DefefD ghghD dgdgg cfcff ijijj ggggg kllff jajaa lmlmm jljll nlnlX oddoX hfXXf ngngg lggllgXg llXlll lglgll jXljj kafaa googgoogg gllllXlggllgg lfklflXlflflklfklflklfklX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,6,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,8,6,6,5,5,9,13,25,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1011010010101 110010101010001 0010111010001 1101110100010001 11011101111111 111110111111 1101111010111 101111101010101 1111 0101110111 1111101111 0111010111 0101010011 1111 1111010101 1101011111 1101011101 0111111111 1111 1111010111 11111101111 1111010111 11001111101 110101010101 1111111001 10010010111 1101010111 1101010101 11010010101 1111111111 0101111111 1111001111 1011011111 1111110111 11110111001 1011110101 10011010101 01110101001 100100101001 11001110100 1101010001 1111011111 1111011111 0111011111 1111011111 1101110101 11010110001 1111011101 111111111111 11110111101 11111111010 1101101111 111101010110 11010100110 1110111101 101110001 11001010101 10110001001 01001010001 1101010101 01111101011 1011010011 1101000101 0111001001 1111011111 1101111101 1111011111 1111111101 111111111111 11111101001 1111111111 1111011111 1101011111 1101011111 1111011111 0011011111 1101110101 1001010100 1101110101 110010100111 0101010101 1101000101 11010011101 1001011101 11010101001 011001110100 0100100101 11110101011 0011111111 0100010010 1111010101 1011110101 110101110101 1111010101 010111010010 1101011001 1011010111 0101110111 0100001011101 1111110001 1011101100 10100010001 1101011101 010101110111 1111011100 0101110101 1100010101 1101011111 111101110101 1101000100 1101010011 1101010101 10001011111 01010101111 1000110001 1111110101 11001000101 011101110101 11101101101 1100011101 1100010101 001100111011 00010011101 1111010100 1101100101 101111111001 1101010101 11010101001 1101000101 1011010111 010110011101 11011111101 1111100111 1111010100 11101011101 1101001111 1111011111 0111110100 1101110011 1100010101 1111111111 1101010111 1101011101 1101110100 0101111111 1001111100 1101010100 1011010111 0101010111 10010101001 1011000100 1101010111 0101010101 0101010100 1111011101 010100010010
- Amount of stanzas: 23
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 304
- Average number of words per stanza: 58
- Amount of lines: 178
- Average number of symbols per line: 39 (medium-length strings)
- 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; i, and, with, thou, who, they, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
The author used the same words 'the, 'all at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same words son, ' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of A Hero's Grave;
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