This is an analysis of the poem Death Snips Proud Men that begins with:
DEATH is stronger than all the governments because
the governments are men and men die and then...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXaXXbacXXacXb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: sonnet with trochaic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 101011010001 01001111111 111110111 10101111111 1111011010 1111011 1101001001111 111011111100 10111010111 11 10011001111 1110111110 1111111101 1011
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 630
- Average number of words per stanza: 116
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (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; death, men, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word death is repeated.
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