This is an analysis of the poem A Death-Parting that begins with:
LEAVES and rain and the days of the year,
(Water-willow and wellaway) ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXaaBcdccDcbccBbdbbDaXaaB
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 25,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 111101001 10111100 11111111 11011111 0011111 11110101 010110101 001100101 01011101 0011111 110111101 011110101 111111001 111011101 0011111 11111001 011100101 111111101 11111101 0011111 111101001 10111100 11111111 11011111 0011111
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 941
- Average number of words per stanza: 185
- Amount of lines: 25
- Average number of symbols per line: 37 (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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