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

THE FOUR boards of the coffin lid
Heard all the dead man did.... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aa bX aX cc dd dd aa bb ee bb dd aa dd aa ff gg dd hh gg aa ii jj kk ff Xh
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 01100101 110110 0111001 10111101 0111001 10111000 0111001 110111 0111001 110011 1111111 1111111 1111111 1111111 1111011 1111011 1111011 1111011 1110011 11110011 1110101 111101 011111 00110111 010100 01110011 011111 01110111 011101 11111101 011100 00111101 111111101 111010111 111110011 110100111 01101 00011111 111100101 1011101 111100101 01111101 11110011 1011101 111101111 111101 011101 1011111 0110110 1011101
  • Amount of stanzas: 25
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 66
  • Average number of words per stanza: 14
  • Amount of lines: 50
  • Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; my, has are repeated.

    The author used the same words the, i, my, have, your at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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  • summary of After Death;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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