This is an analysis of the poem Benediction that begins with:

Blest in death and life beyond man's guessing
Little children live and die, possest... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXab babXabab
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,8,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: limerick
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1011101110 101011110 1011101010 1 1111101001 11101011010 111110001 1111101010 1111101001 10100101110 1
  • Amount of stanzas: 3
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 145
  • Average number of words per stanza: 24
  • Amount of lines: 11
  • Average number of symbols per line: 39 (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; each, least are repeated.

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

    The author used the same word each at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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