This is an analysis of the poem Vain Death that begins with:
ALL the first night she might not weep
But watched till morning came, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXb cded edcd Xfcf gcac hehe ijcj ikgkdkXfdeed
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,12,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10111111 111101 11111111 011101 01011111 111111 11110101 110111 01111111 110101 10010111 110111 1111010010 111111 10110101 011001 11010001 010111 110100101 110101 11011111 111101 11110111 011001 11110001 110111 11010101 110111 11011101 110111 11111101 010101 11110111 100101 11111111 100011 11110101 10010001 010101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1475
- Average number of words per stanza: 254
- Amount of lines: 47
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- 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; she, and, her, that are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
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