This is an analysis of the poem A Death Song that begins with:
What cometh here from west to east awending?
And who are these, the marchers stern and slow?... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XabaCC bdbdCC XefeCCXfefeCC
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,13,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 11010101100 1111010111 11010101110 0101110111 1111110111 1111011101 11010101010 1111110111 11010111010 1111010111 1111110111 1111011101 10111111010 1111000101 11111101110 1101110101 1111110111 1111011101 11011111110 01011101001 10010101010 1111010101 1111110111 1111011101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 276
- Average number of words per stanza: 55
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 45 (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; and, they, one are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words we, they are repeated.
The poet repeated the same word day at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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