This is an analysis of the poem What Our Dead Do that begins with:
Jan came this morning
—I dreamt of my father...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abc def ghci bfXa GC hjXgi fdh bX GCc adbk cacjfhaX kecgceec kXe
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,3,4,4,2,5,3,2,3,4,8,8,3,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11010 110110 11 111001110 111001 110101 11110 10100010100 1010111010 011101 11001010 111101 111 11110 1101100 110111 101101 1101001 0001010 101110 00101101 001011 1011011 0110110 011010110 1010001 1101100 110111 1101010 01110010 1100100010 1001010 11100010 1101011 00101101010 11011011 10111 1101001 111011 1111101 111100101 00111 1101 11111 11110 111 10010010010 111110 101101010 110101 10101010010 11010001
- Amount of stanzas: 13
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 109
- Average number of words per stanza: 22
- Amount of lines: 52
- Average number of symbols per line: 27 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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