This is an analysis of the poem Wordsworth's Grave that begins with:

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The old rude church, with bare, bald tower, is here;... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: a bcBc Bdbd Xeae fgfg hihi jaja X kgkg gjgj cdcd clcl mnmn X hbhb ogog eheh lele bobX X igig cdcd XoXo coco dgdg jiji pXpo iaia ghgh coco bjXj ecec hchc bjbj a lqlq bgbg eiei naXr Xcbc a ncnX gigi aXro okok nbnb cici nono gjgj X gngX hbhm ododXogog
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,4,4,4,4,4,4,1,4,4,4,4,4,1,4,4,4,4,4,1,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,1,4,4,4,4,4,1,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,1,4,4,9,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 1 01110111001 0101111101 10010011101 1011010001 10010011101 0101011011 1001110111 1001111101 1101010100 1101010111 1111011101 0101011101 11110111001 1001100101 0101010001 1001110101 01100101011 1001011111 11010100100 01001110001 0111111101 1111011101 0101011101 1101111111 1 10110101001 1111111111 01111100101 0111001101 1101100101 1111010101 1101011101 1101011101 1111111101 1111111101 101101101001 1111010101 010100111001 0101010101 1101111111 100100101111 1111111010 1011000111 11111101010 1111111101 1 1101010011 0101010101 0101011101 0100010111 11001010111 0101000111 00111100111 0111010101 11010100011 0101010111 1001100101 1001110001 1101011101 0101010001 00101001101 110010101001 01010010101 1101010111 1101100101 011101010 1 0100110111 1001011101 1101011111 1101010101 1111110101 1111100111 10011101011 1000110010 100010110001 0101000101 1101010011 0100010001 0101110101 01110111001 01100101111 0110010111 0111000101 0111010101 1111011100 11010101001 1101111111 0111010101 11011111101 111111111 0111010101 01011001100 0101010001 1101001111 0101010101 0101100101 0101010101 0101010101 0101111101 0101110101 1001011101 1101010111 0111111101 01011100101 110010101 1111011111 11110101001 10001110101 11001010110 0101010101 1101011111 101010100111 11010011001 1101110101 0101010101 01001011101 011101101 10010010101 1101010101 0101010111 1001111101 11110100101 1 1111110101 11001011111 1001000101 1100110101 1001011111 1111110101 1101010101 11010101001 1101000101 1011010001 1101010101 1111000101 1111010011 1000011111 11010101000 0101010100 0111010110 0101011101 11110000101 1111110111 1 1011110101 11001011111 11101100111 10111111010 1101011101 1111001101 1011010101 1100110101 10010010111 10110111100 1001010100 1011110111 1101010111 10110110101 1011110101 0111110101 1111110111 1111111101 11010011111 1111110111 1111110101 01010011111 1111011101 1101110111 11111101111 10010010111 1111011111 1111001111 1111010111 1101010101 1111011101 1111111111 1 0111110101 0001010111 1001010101 1001011100 0111011001 1101011001 0101011101 0101110110 0111001101 1101110101 1111010111 0111111111 1101111101 1111010001 0101011111 0101011101
  • Amount of stanzas: 54
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 155
  • Average number of words per stanza: 28
  • Amount of lines: 201
  • Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; his, to, him, that, we, name, thou, of, she, her, and, it, thy are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, not, from, it, and, we, or, thy are repeated.

    The author used the same words the, it, and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

    The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase rest connects the lines.

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  • summary of Wordsworth's Grave;
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