This is an analysis of the poem Questions that begins with:
Soul, dost thou shudder at the narrow tomb?
Heart, dost thou dread to moulder in the dust—... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbaabbacdcdee
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 1111010101 1111010001 0101111101 1001110001 1111010101 1111111111 1001111101 0111010111 1101111111 1101010111 1011011110 1110011101 1101110011 1011010111
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 661
- Average number of words per stanza: 123
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 46 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; in is repeated.
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