This is an analysis of the poem Death Wants More Death that begins with:

death wants more death, and its webs are full:
I remember my father's garage, how child-like...

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcXcdefXaghihhhXhhjdfeXkhbgbggllkmjaXdgkhXchghXefgdibcdbgehmadl
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 64,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 111110111 101011001111 11101001 001011001 110101010 10111010101 100111 01101011110 1001001 110100011 10101 0101010 101 110110 1110 10100101 011 01011010 010 011001011 10101 101001 101 11111 01010 0111010 1001 010111 1010101 100101 1011111 11101 11001010 010101010 110001 110101101 01101 01011001 110101 111111 011110 11101010 010111010 101101 110 0101 110 1010100 11110 10010101 101010 111 10101 01110111 10 010 11011 01100101 101011 100 10111 011 01001 11111
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1666
  • Average number of words per stanza: 297
  • Amount of lines: 64
  • Average number of symbols per line: 25 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 5
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; his is repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words i, there, the, and are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines knowing is repeated).

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

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