This is an analysis of the poem Consolation Of Early Death that begins with:
Sweet prince, the name of Death was never terrible
To him that knew to live; nor the loud torrent... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XabcbdceccXcaXceddXdddc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 23,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110101110100 01110110110 0101010111 01011001010 1111110111 11010111010 10011111010 1111010 111111001111 11011111111 11111101010 11000101101 11111111010 1111010001 1101011111100 01001100001 1111111111 11111101110 11010111110 01111011010 101111111010 111111001110 11011110110
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1086
- Average number of words per stanza: 203
- Amount of lines: 23
- Average number of symbols per line: 46 (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.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, to, we, us, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines us is repeated).
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