This is an analysis of the poem The Forsaken that begins with:
The dead are in their silent graves,
And the dew is cold above, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcbdeaedfafgcdcgcec
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 20,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01101101 1010101 1010111 1011111 1110101 11010111 11111011 01101101 11010101 01011101 11111111 11110001 11011101 01010101 110111010 11111111 01011111 01011101 110011011 01011101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 700
- Average number of words per stanza: 138
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
- 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; and, my are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
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