This is an analysis of the poem The Cemetary Of Eylau that begins with:

This to my elder brothers, schoolboys gay,
Was told by Uncle Louis on a day;...

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabbcdeeXeffbbg gffddaXbbXXbXXbbbbbXhiiaXcXjjXbkkaahhlXccbb eXbbeebbhhccbbddeemmkkeeggeekkaabbfXhhaajX hhbbbbXdnfddcckkffbbmmiifXXjf fddkkbblloommhhffhhggXbeeggjjggkkbb eeaappkkcceenXdccXeeeeaab bhheXkkiXXakXkXaabbhhbbffddbbeeggeebbXcXbXbiicceeffkkcc kkfX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 15,43,42,29,35,25,55,34,12,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: heroic couplets
  • Metre: 0011010111 1111010101 1111010111 1011110101 10011010110 1101111100 0101111111 1101111101 0100110111 1111010111 1111010101 1101101111 1111101101 0101010111 1101011111 1101010101 1101010101 101001011 1101001101 10110010101 11010100111 0101110001 1111010101 0101110111 011011101010 110101101110 1101010011 1111010101001 1101011111 1111111101 1111010111 1101011101 1111011101 1111111111 1101110101 1101010111 1111011111 1111010001 0110010001 1111110101 11011011110 11001101101 1111010101 1101110111 1111011111 1101010111 0111010111 1100010101 1111111101 0101011101 1001010101 01001011101 1101011011 11011101010 0101111111 1111001101 1101010101 0111001011 1110100101 1111011100 0111011101 0100110101 1111111101 1111110111 1101010101 1111000111 11100111111 1101110111 11011101001 1101110101 1011110001 1101011111 1101101101 1111111111 11111100001 0101110111 1111110101 1101011011 0101001111 1011010101 0101110101 01110101111 11110111001 1101011011 1011010101 1001111111 11110100100 1101110011 1011011101 1101010101 11110101001 1011011101 1111010101 11110111010 1101011101 1001011111 0111110101 0101011101 0111110111 11101111010 1111110101 1001010101 0111110101 1101010101 1110110101 11000110111 10010111110 1111011101 1101101100 0101111111 1111001001 0111010111 1101010101 0101110101 1101011011 1101110101 0101111111 1101010101 1111001101 0101011101 0110110111 1101001111 1011110111 1100110101 1011111101 1101110111 11011101010 1100010111 0101110101 1101110111 01010101011 11010100001 1011110111 1101010101 0101010101 10110111001 1011010101 01100101101 1101011001 1011011101 1011011001 1011011111 0101110100 101001001100 11110101001 0101011111 101010111011 1101011101 0111010101 01101011111 01110010100 1011000101 1101100111 0111110111 1011011101 1111111111 1110011111 0110110111 1001101101 1101001101 0111110101 101010110111 11110111001 1101111111 1101111101 1001111101 1111010100 0101011101 1111001011 1100111111 1101011111 11001111111 0111010111 0101100101 1011011101 1011100101 11011100010 10111111010 1101010101 0101011101 0111110101 01011111100 01011110001 1101011101 1111010001 0101110101 1001110101 1111001100 0111010101 11001011101 1011010111 11110001101 1111001101 1101111101 0101110101 0101110001 1101010101 0111111110 0101111111 1111110111 1111110111 11011101110 1111011101 1101110111 0101100101 1111010111 1110101111 1111010101 010011010101 1011111111 01010001101 0101110111 1011011101 1101111101 0101011101 01001110101 0110011101 1110011101 1001010011 1010110111 1101010101 1101111101 1101011111 1111110001 0101110111 1011011011 11111111001 01011111111 0101011101 1011010111 1101111101 1111110101 11110010111 0101110101 10001010101 01010111001 0101111101 11001100101 1101010101 1101010111 01010011001 01011101101 0111010101 11010100101 1111010111 11110010111 1001110111 111111110110 1101011101 11010100100 1111111111 1101011001 1111011111 1111110101 11010111111 0101010111 11001111101 1011111111 1110110101 1111011111 00101111101 1101010110 1101010101 1101110101 1111010101 1101110111 1111010001 0101011111 1111011111 11011111001 0101011101 1111011110 0101110101 1111110111 0101010101 0101111101 1101011101 1110110101 1001110111 100111101001 1111010111 1001111101 1111111111 1101111111 101010101101 0101011111 11110100110 1111010111 10111111011 111101101
  • Amount of stanzas: 9
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1444
  • Average number of words per stanza: 276
  • Amount of lines: 290
  • 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, and, i, ', to, my, how, we, us, of, arm are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words i, the, in, we, my are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines ' is repeated).

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