This is an analysis of the poem Dead Before Death that begins with:
Ah! changed and cold, how changed and very cold,
With stiffened smiling lips and cold calm eyes:... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbaabbacdccdc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 1111111101 0101011111 1101110101 0101000101 1111000101 1100010111 1111011011 1001010111 11001011101 1100110101 1111011101 1111100101 1101010101 1111110101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 616
- Average number of words per stanza: 116
- Amount of lines: 14
- 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; and, cold, changed, all, lost are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words grown, all, so are repeated.
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