This is an analysis of the poem The Burial Of Mr. Gladstone that begins with:
Alas! the people now do sigh and moan
For the loss of Wm. Ewart Gladstone,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaaa bbcdd eeeX bbff ddbb Xdgg Xcdd ghiicb jjii kddaa jjii kkkX kkee iidd hhai llbb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,5,4,4,4,4,4,6,4,5,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0101011111 101010011011 110101101010101 1011011101 100101110101 10110111011 1010111011010 1110111011001 111011011101 1101011011101 1101000111111 111110001001 11010001110110 0100010101001 1001000101010001 10111010011001011101 101000100101011 011001110011 10010001001101001 11010001001 1110101010100101 01000101110 110101101 101001001000 111000000110 001000100011000 10110010100 101100110010111 10101001011101 110011110 1110001101 1011001010 101100101101011 11010110100 10101001010101 101000010101111 01010000100101010 10001010011 00100001101011101 11001001101 101111 100100101001011 10101010111 10010101010011011 1101001001111 111001101111 100101101010 110101110110101 10100100101001 10010001000101 11110101010101101 111001011111000 11011101111101 101001101 110111011 10100101101 0111010101 0110101011001 1100101101 011010110101101 1101111101001 1010000101001001 11110101111 11011001001 01010011011110111 1010101111101 0101100010101 100101010011
- Amount of stanzas: 16
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 214
- Average number of words per stanza: 38
- Amount of lines: 68
- Average number of symbols per line: 50 (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, his, of, lord are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, then, while are repeated.
The author used the same word and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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