This is an analysis of the poem My Grave that begins with:
Shall they bury me in the deep,
Where wind-forgetting waters sleep?...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccdD eeffggggdD ggeeffddgXXdd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,10,13,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11101001 11010101 1110111 100111 11011 10101 00111 1111 1110100101 1100100101 110111001 11110111101 001101011111 111001101101 1111100101 11001011001 111111101 1111 11110111 1110011111 1110100101 1110110101 0100111111 11110101 111111101 010111101 01101111101 110101101 1110100101 010100101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 277
- Average number of words per stanza: 55
- Amount of lines: 30
- Average number of symbols per line: 36 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
There are many exclamation marks in the poem. The speaker is excited. He or she has strong feelings on the subject that is described in the poem.
The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; my, no are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word shall is repeated.
The author used the same word shall at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word no at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase no connects the lines.
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- summary of My Grave;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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