This is an analysis of the poem The Death Of Lord And Lady Dalhousie that begins with:
Alas! Lord and Lady Dalhousie are dead, and buried at last,
Which causes many people to feel a little downcast;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabb cccc ddXe fXfg hhbb fgaa aaii XXee aaff jjcc XXXe kXaa eekk Xfii XXll
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 011110101111011 11010100101011 111111011 111100101101 1110111011101 1111111101 100101011101 11111101010111 11010110011 10010011010001001 1011101001 00101001111 1101011011101 0100010010100 1110000100010101 01111000101101100 11101010101001 1111011101 11111101001 1101111 1010111010101 111001010100010010 110101101101011 11101010001010 0011101010010 10010011010111 111000100101000 11001011111010 1011101000010000100 1111101111111 11111010111010101010 11001011101010 100111100101001010 111001101011001 1111010010100101 1100110011111 1001011111010010 101001101010 10011010001011 0111101010101 0101001001110 101101000100 1010010101000110 1011111111100 111101101 1101100101010 01101010110100011010 111011001101 01111100100011100101 010001011110001 1010101110101 001001111010001 011011010001010001 1011010001001 01010010011010100111001000 101001110101101010 0100101010001010 101110111010011010 1101100100011101 1010010111011
- Amount of stanzas: 15
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 222
- Average number of words per stanza: 41
- Amount of lines: 60
- Average number of symbols per line: 55 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 10
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, may, they, to, by, of, in, his, he, prince are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
The author used the same words he, 'twas at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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