This is an analysis of the poem It Is Not The Tear At This Moment Shed that begins with:
It is not the tear at this moment shed,
When the cold turf has just been laid o'er him, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcXca cbcbbdbd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0010110101 10111101101 111101010111 1110111011 1011100111 11111000 101010101 11101110 1010011101 1010110010 1111101111 1111111010 1110100101 1101110 11111101001 0010111010
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 344
- Average number of words per stanza: 63
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- 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; 'tis is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word 'tis is repeated.
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