This is an analysis of the poem A Guest that begins with:
Death, are you well? I trust you have no cough
That's painful or in any way annoying... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcc cbcbdd dedeff
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1111111111 11010101010 11010111011 11010110010 11111010101 0101010111 1011010111 01011101010 0101011111 11011100010 1111111111 1110010001 1111011101 01110101010 1011110101 11000101110 1101011101 0101111101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 256
- Average number of words per stanza: 50
- Amount of lines: 18
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; you is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word what is repeated.
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