This is an analysis of the poem Laus Mortis that begins with:
The imperishable phantoms, Love and Fame,
Nor Beauty, burning on the mist and mire...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcaacba dXad XX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,4,2,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 0100010111 11010101110 0100100010 1110010101 1111110101 11011100010 1111010011 1101100001 110000111 1001110110 11010100101 1100110111 0111011100 1001011101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 186
- Average number of words per stanza: 33
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 39 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and is repeated.
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