This is an analysis of the poem Hymn To Death that begins with:

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  • Rhyme scheme: ababcBXdeeeefggefe XeaeeababcBhhhagXaaffijji XkXddkbdbdjddjhffXllddeehhmmff XbebXjjjjnnbbiiboopipioo aaaaddaeeeffooobbddbbebeblolhhbobo abdbdjjggnnnmmmmoo XqfqffkffXnnjjrrkkX Xdadaaaaqeqe
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 18,25,30,24,34,18,19,12,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1 10010101 0101010101 1010101 1101101 101101 1001011101 1010101 101 1011111111 1011101 0101011111 10110111111 10111101010 010001010 1001011101 1001010001 0101010101 1 1100110101 1011010101 1110101 1010101 0101110001 1101110101 01010101 1010101 1110101 101101 00101010 00101010 11010011000010 101 1011100 101010 1010101 1011101 1111101 1011101 111 1011001101 1101000100 10010100001 1 111111 0111010110 110111 1101010001 0101010101 1011001111 100101 1101011101 01010110111 1111001111 0111010001 1111010101 1101010101 1101010111 10111101 111101 1111010110 111101000111 110100101 10110111 1101 01010101 11111111 1101010101 111101111101 10111101 0010001 10101110111 11010101 1 1111000101 1111 110101 111010 11110111 1101 1101011101 110101 1011101 01000111 11010101 11100111 1101001101 10010101 11011101 01110101 01010111 00011011010 01010111 10101010 011101001 101110101 01010101 1 1100 110101 1111 111111011 1010101 1111110001 1011001 1011101 010101100101 1010101 1100101 1010101 1010111 110010101110101 1111001111 11010101 11010111 11010101 01010000101 11011101 0111011101 10110010101 01010010001 1010101 11110111 1001010111 111011 100101010010 10101010 0111110101 101101 1111111101 01001000011 1 100111 111101 0101010101 111101111111 0101001001 1110101 01111010 1001001011011010 0001 1111 1111010111 1111100101 0101 01111111011 01010101 0101010101 1111010101001 1 1111010011 1111 1100101111 1101000101 1011010001 1101011111 1111111101 1111111111 111111011100 1101111101 1010111 110100101 0101110111 11110101 1101110101 11010101 1111000101 11110101001000 1 11011101110 1110010111 11011111010 1011011 0111110001 1101101 1101110101 1101111101 1111001101 1111011011 0111011101
  • Amount of stanzas: 8
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 782
  • Average number of words per stanza: 146
  • Amount of lines: 180
  • Average number of symbols per line: 34 (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; something, and, then, to, never, little, of, who, be, that, my are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words then, no, who, to, shall are repeated.

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