This is an analysis of the poem Life And Death that begins with:
A little light, heat, motion, breath;
Then silence, darkness, and decay; ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababXXccccXX dbdbee
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,6,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01011101 11010101 00010101 010101 11111110 11010100 01010101 01110101 10110101 010101 11111110 10010001 11110101 11010101 11110101 110101 110101001 111100111
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 319
- Average number of words per stanza: 60
- Amount of lines: 18
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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- summary of Life And Death;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
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