This is an analysis of the poem Shelley’s Death that begins with:
What! And it was so! Thou wert then
Death-stricken from behind,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababccb adadeeX acacffc ghgXaah ijijkkj jajaeea lelebbe mdmdnnd kokoeeo
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11011111 110001 11011101 111011 1010101 1010101 101101010101 11111101 111101 01110111 110111 11111011 1010101 111011110100 11110101 010111 01110001 110111 1110111 1101101 101001110101 10111111 1111010 11110101 1001111 1011101 0110101 0111111111110 11111101 110101 11100001 1011010 1110111 1010101 0101011101010 11011101 010101 10111101 100101 1011111 1010101 110001110001 11011111 011001 11001001 101101 1110101 1000111 1011010111101 11111011 101111 110111011 110111 1110101 0010101 1101010100001 10011111 111101 11010101 100101 1010101 0110011 111111110011
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 248
- Average number of words per stanza: 45
- Amount of lines: 63
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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