This is an analysis of the poem Dysthanatos that begins with:
BY no dry death another king goes down
The way of kings. Yet may no free man’s voice,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbaaXXaccXcdd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 1111010111 0101111111 1101011101 11110100101 1111111101 111101100100 0111111111 1101111101 0111110101 11011110001 110010010111 1111000011 0101111111 11010111001
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 643
- Average number of words per stanza: 120
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 45 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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- summary of Dysthanatos;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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