This is an analysis of the poem To Thyrza: And Thou Art Dead, As Young And Fair that begins with:
And thou art dead, as young and fair
As aught of mortal birth;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababccbdd efefggfhh fefehheii jkjkllXii fifimmiaa kckcffcii lclcnnckk kikiiXiXj
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11111111 110101 11111111 110101 11010001 110010111 010011 10111111 01011101 10111111 110101 110111011 110101 00011101 11111111 110111 01111101 11011111 10111001 110011 11111101 111101 01111101 11111101 111101 11011111 11111101 01010101 011011 011101110 110101 01001101 11011101 111010 11111101 11111101 010010101 1101001 11110101 011101 11000101 010100111 110101 11011111 01010101 11101111 011101 01110101 110101 11010111 11110001 010101 11110101 11011101 11110111 111101 01111101 1101011 01110111 01100101 011101 11111101 11111101 11110001 111111 010011101 110101 01011101 11110100 010101 11110110 11010100
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 293
- Average number of words per stanza: 58
- Amount of lines: 72
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, to, or, that, i, it, as are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words nor, the, to are repeated.
The author used the same word the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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