This is an analysis of the poem The Right To Grief that begins with:

To Certain Poets About to Die
Take your fill of intimate remorse, perfumed sorrow,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: a XbcdXe Xfd gbhia jkge kh kdb ffX hacjaXi
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,6,3,5,4,2,3,3,7,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 010100101 1110100010110 1001100101 101001010101101 10101110010100 11 111 101 11111111 111010110110 11110011001110 010101101 11010100101111 1010101111001 111 1011110 0001101110110 10010011010101010 1101011 010101101 11001111110011 101001101111101 111001101001001 0110111 1010100011101010 111101110111 011101101110 110101111010 11111111 010101100101011 0011011011010 100101 1111110111011 0101001
  • Amount of stanzas: 9
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 162
  • Average number of words per stanza: 32
  • 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; of, i, he, day are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words they, to are repeated.

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  • summary of The Right To Grief;
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