This is an analysis of the poem When Cold In The Earth that begins with:

When cold in the earth lies the friend thou hast loved,
Be his faults and his follies forgot by thee then; ... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: ababcdcd dcdcaeae fefedcdc
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 11001101111 001101001111 10011001001 110001011001 11011001011 001101111001 001001011101 101101011011 01111001011 010011111001 01011011101 001011011001 1001001101011 1101011011001 101001011001 101001001101 110101011011 111101101101 111001011011 101001111001 101001111011 101101101001 101001011001 111011101001
  • Amount of stanzas: 3
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 404
  • Average number of words per stanza: 75
  • Amount of lines: 24
  • Average number of symbols per line: 50 (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; to, and are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.

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