This is an analysis of the poem Oh, Ye Dead! that begins with:
Oh, ye Dead! oh, ye Dead! whom we know by the light you give
From your cold gleaming eyes, though you move like men who live, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbcddc eeffXggX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11111111110111 0111011111111 111111 011111 101101110111 010111 111111 10111111111 0010011111111 1011011111111 1111001 110101 001101001111010 110111 011101 111001111111
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 356
- Average number of words per stanza: 71
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; you, your, and, we are repeated.
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