This is an analysis of the poem Love And Death that begins with:

Children of Fate, in the same breath
Created were they, Love and Death....

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabbccdeXdXfXfgfeehdhdeebb abbiijjcffffkhgdld lffdlbbeebbieffkideeeaeeemddddjdnaoabnnbcgnccedccfXdemdeffdoofbblolfdddccdiiccfdf
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 26,18,81,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 10010011 01001111 11010101 11011001001 01010100 01110101 10010101001 01110101 11010110 110101 100111 11010011 10110101 110101 11101010101 11000100101 11000111 111100101 11001100 111101 0011011100 111111 1101011001 1101010101 111001 010101 11101101 010101 11011101 010111011 010100111 1111111101 0101011101 01010100 111011 1111010101 0101110101 10110101 1111010101 0110110100 11111101 1011010101 010001010 1101010101 110100010 101101 1101010111 110101 0101010 1111101101 11111111 0101010111 11001101 01010001 11010010101 111101001 110111 0101100101 0111000101 111101 10011101 010100001 01010111 111101 01010111 11010101 11010101 01010100 0101000101 010101 010011101 010101 100101 0101010101 11010001 11011101 11010101 11111101 110101 01010111 00111101 10010101011 1111010101 010101 110101 11011100111 1111100101 01111101 11001110111 01010101 1101110101 11010011 110010101 110011 11010111 11010101 111011000 110101 11010101 010000101 011101 11010100 0001000101 11010111 10110101 1111010001 11110101 11010101 110111100010 1111100011 010101010 010101 10110101 01011011 01010001 11010101 01110111 11010101 01110101 1101110111 01011111 11010001 011101001 11111101 11110101
  • Amount of stanzas: 3
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1468
  • Average number of words per stanza: 264
  • Amount of lines: 125
  • Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
  • 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; we, that, and are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, and, a are repeated.

    The author used the same word and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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