This is an analysis of the poem O Death, Dust Of Stars that begins with:
O death, dust of stars,
Rise beneath my steps....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ab cX abb XXdbX eXaab ffdec
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,2,3,5,5,5,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11101 10111 10110001 11011110 111111 0010 110101110100 0001111011 0010110 111111 111101 01110101 1111101001 0100111001 001 1101101011 1011 1100010100 0101101010 1111 0010110101 010101001
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 114
- Average number of words per stanza: 22
- Amount of lines: 22
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word come is repeated.
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