This is an analysis of the poem Death’s Chill Between that begins with:
Chide not; let me breathe a little,
For I shall not mourn him long;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcc dedeff ghgXbb hihihh gjgjkk lXlcddXeeeegg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,13,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11111010 1111111 10111110 0111101 1110101 1110101 1111111 1111011 1110111 1111101 1101101 1110111 1011101 1101101 1011101 1111111 1111001 1111101 1010101 0110101 1010101 1111111 1010101 0111101 1110101 1110011 1100011 1111101 11101010 10101010 1010101 1101100 1011111 1110100 1011011 0111011 1110101 1010111 1011101 1110101 1110101 1101101
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 183
- Average number of words per stanza: 37
- Amount of lines: 42
- 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; i is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words you, and, bring are repeated.
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- summary of Death’s Chill Between;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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