This is an analysis of the poem The Grave Of Howard that begins with:

Spirit of Death! whose outstretched pennons dread
Wave o'er the world beneath their shadow spread;... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabbccddcXeeaaffeeddaaggffXfffccaaggbbaaeXhhddiiffXfffggbbjjddbbaafXaaaahhaakkaaccbbaaaalmddffffaallffhmmmiihhllffffcchhaaccllaaddhhaahhhhiiccllnn
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 146,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: limerick
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 1001101101 11001011111 1101011101 11111101001 1001110001 0111001101 11110100101 100010010101 1101110101 1001110101 1001011101 1101000101 1101001101 01010001001 11001011101 10000100111 1101110101 1011010101 1101010101 0101101101 1111010111 1101000111 1101010101 1101011101 1011010101 11001010101 10111101010 01110010111 0101000101 10001101111 0111010101 0011001101 01010100111 0101110101 1101110101 1001010101 01001111101 1101100011 1011111111 11001101101 1101101010 11110100110 1100011111 1111111101 1101010101 1101010011 1110010101 1101011001 1101001101 01011010101 11010101010 1101111111 1100110101 01001000101 1111010111 0101010001 001011101001 1001010101 1011110001 01100101101 1111010101 1011011101 1111110101 01110101001 1111010101 0101010101 1101001101 11010101010 1101110101 0100010101 1011100101 11010101001 1101010101 001001011111 0101110101 1101010001 1101000101 0110010101 0101000101 1101010101 1101010101 01010011001 1001011101 0101011101 1011110101 11011100101 1111011101 11001010101 1100010111 1100010101 1001010101 1001110101 0101011111 11111101001 0110010111 0101010101 0100010101 11101010101 1101110111 1101110100 100110101 00111101001 010010101001 01001010100 01011111001 11010010101 0111010111 1001110101 1100110101 0111010011 110010100101 0011011101 110010001001 0101000101 0100111101 1101111001 11001010101 1111010101 0101010101 1101100101 1001010101 0111010101 1111010101 11110011101 0101011111 00110111001 10101110101 1001110001 100110101001 10011010010 1111110011 1101111001 10110100101 1111110111 1111010111 1101110101 1111010111 0111110011 1111011101 0111111111 1111101101 00110010111 0101010101 1101010101 1101001101 10011101011
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 6438
  • Average number of words per stanza: 1126
  • Amount of lines: 146
  • Average number of symbols per line: 43 (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; he, his, thou, hast, of, from, thy, who are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words he, thou, till, thy, from are repeated.

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