This is an analysis of the poem When Thou Must Home To Shades Of Underground that begins with:

When thou must home to shades of underground,
And there arriv'd, a new admired guest,... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: ababcc dedeff
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 1111010101 1101010101 0101011011 11110101 0101001101 0111110111 1111010001 01011011101 0101110001 1111011101 1111110101 1111111101
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 292
  • Average number of words per stanza: 48
  • Amount of lines: 13
  • Average number of symbols per line: 44 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • 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.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word of is repeated.

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