This is an analysis of the poem A Cypress-Bough, And A Rose-Wreath Sweet ( Song ) that begins with:
Act IV, scene iii
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Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: X aabcdcddBEEBFF ggbbhbhhBEEBFF
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,14,14,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111 010110111 010110101 0101101 100101 110101 111101 001011 10011 1110111 110111 100111 110111 110100111 110101101 11010111 10110111 1111001 100111 0101011 110101 111011 011001 1110111 110111 100111 110111 110100111 110101101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 314
- Average number of words per stanza: 58
- Amount of lines: 30
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words a, and, for are repeated.
The poet repeated the same word tomb at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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