This is an analysis of the poem Antepast that begins with:
The thought of death to me
Is like a well in some oasis dim—...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXba cacba
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 010101 0101010101 1101110100 010101 1101010101 110101 1011100101 1101100101 100101 001000100001
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 165
- Average number of words per stanza: 31
- Amount of lines: 10
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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