This is an analysis of the poem Dirge that begins with:

COME away, come away, death,
   And in sad cypres let me be laid; ... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: ababcdcd dXdXefef
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1011011 101101101 1011011 111101101 11011101 1010 11011111 110 101010101 111101101 1011011 111111101 01010101 1111 111010111 111
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 319
  • Average number of words per stanza: 50
  • Amount of lines: 16
  • Average number of symbols per line: 39 (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; away, not, my are repeated.

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