This is an analysis of the poem On A Young Poetess’s Grave that begins with:
UNDER her gentle seeing,
In her delicate little hand, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab cdcd ebeX abab fefe
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1001010 00100101 1101010 011101 01110110 1111001 101011110 111101 01010010 111101 1101110 11100111 110010010 011101 11010110 01000111 11101011 1101010 10101111 00101010
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 133
- Average number of words per stanza: 25
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, her, d are repeated.
The author used the same word the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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