This is an analysis of the poem The Old Man's Funeral that begins with:
Ye sigh not when the sun, his course fulfilled,
His glorious course, rejoicing earth and sky,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXaaa bcbccc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,6,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1111010101 01001010111 0011010111 1101000101 10011010110101 1111111101 0101010011 1101011101 01000010111 10110000101 101111101101
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 257
- Average number of words per stanza: 45
- Amount of lines: 11
- Average number of symbols per line: 46 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; his is repeated.
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