This is an analysis of the poem On Death that begins with:
Tell me thou safest End of all our Woe,
Why wreched Mortals do avoid thee so:... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbXcddeeffcc ggXhgg aaddiihhjjkkaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,6,14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 1111010111 1101010111 1101011001 1101000101 1101010110 11100111001 0001011101 1101010111 1101001101 1101010001 1111110101 0111010011 1111110001 1101111101 1101000101 1101011111 1111110110 1101010101 1101011101 110110101 1101110101 110111101 1111011001 1111011101 1101110111 1111110111 1111001111 11010101001 1111110111 1010100101 110101001 0101010101 1101010101 1100011101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 482
- Average number of words per stanza: 88
- Amount of lines: 34
- 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 punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; thou, no, thy, fly are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words thou, no are repeated.
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