This is an analysis of the poem On Death, Without Exaggeration that begins with:
It can't take a joke,
find a star, make a bridge. ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXbcXde fdXfg bXhh ccic gjie iXXda Xeg iXiX ege ghe Xe XjXf
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,5,4,4,4,5,3,4,3,3,2,4,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01101 101101 011001101010 1011101 01101011 010101 10110101 01101011 111001 101 1010 111001 0101010 0101100 011011 111010011 101010 11101001 11 10101 01000101 0101001 10101010 111000 1111 10011 10101101 11011001 001101 1011 11011001011111 011101 11011 101001 111111110101 1011011101 0101100100 001101 101 111 1100010 0101010 1 110111101011 0101101 0001001 11111 1001
- Amount of stanzas: 12
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 112
- Average number of words per stanza: 20
- Amount of lines: 48
- Average number of symbols per line: 27 (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.
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- summary of On Death, Without Exaggeration;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
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