This is an analysis of the poem On The Funeral Of Charles The First that begins with:

The castle clock had tolled midnight:
With mattock and with spade,... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: abab cdcd efef babX agag gcgc abab hbhbXhchc
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: ballad stanza
  • Metre: 01011111 010101 11010101 010111 01010111 010011 11010101 110101 1000101101 110101 11011111 111101 11010101 0100101 110010101 11010010 0110011 111101 011010001 110101 11110101 110101 1011010001 010101 11011101 110101 11010111 011101 11010101 011111 01111111 111001 11010101 111101 11110101 110101
  • Amount of stanzas: 9
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 142
  • Average number of words per stanza: 24
  • Amount of lines: 36
  • Average number of symbols per line: 36 (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; no, we 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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