This is an analysis of the poem All Things Will Die that begins with:

All Things will Die
Clearly the blue river chimes in its flowing... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: a b ab abb caddeeAafcfbXddaghhgcbabXbbbggiiddaXfjacjfA
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,1,2,3,43,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: limerick
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1101 10011010010 1011 10110011110 1001 110010011110 10010110010010 1100 11111 010101 010101 010101 010101 11111 1111 0101101 1100 11101 11111010 01101000 11111 11101 001111 010111 01001 11101 101101 1100 11010 11101 01010 01110 01110 1001110 01110 1110101 110111 011 101 1111 101 101111 110111 1011101 11011 10101 10100 1101 101101 11111
  • Amount of stanzas: 5
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 257
  • Average number of words per stanza: 48
  • Amount of lines: 50
  • 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; cease, to, we are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.

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

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