This is an analysis of the poem Written Soon After The Preceding Poem that begins with:
Thou should'st have longer liv'd, and to the grave
Have peacefully gone down in full old age!... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXabcXdbecXdXaXbXaXfedXeddfXa X
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 29,1,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1111011001 1100110111 1101110111 1111111101 11101111101 11111101010 010010101001 01001100101 1111000101 01011001101 1101110100 0101111111 0101010101 1011010111 0101011101 0101111101 1101010100 1101110101 01001010101 1001111111 1001011111 1011011111 1111010101 1110100101 1101001011 1101000101 1110100101 1111111101 1110110001 0101
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 652
- Average number of words per stanza: 123
- Amount of lines: 30
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (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; have, old, and, of, his, to are repeated.
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