This is an analysis of the poem Living: After A Death that begins with:
O LIVE!
(Thus seems it we should say to our beloved,-- ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbbbccddbbeXffcccc Aggaahhhhiieeee AccbbjjddccXccbbhh
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 19,15,18,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 11 11011101010 1111111101 1111110011 1101010111 1101010101 1011110101 11010011010 11111100010 1101011111 0100110001 110010101001 1111011111 1001111101 10111010100 1101011111 0101011101 1011011111 1001110101 11 1110111111 1101011101 1111110101 1011000101 1011011101 0111001111 1011010101 1101010101 0101011111 0011011111 011001111000 1011111111 1101010101 0101110101 11 1101010101 0111111101 1111010101 0101011101 1101010011 1111010101 1100110100 11110100101 11110010101 1101110101 1001111001 0101010101 0111110111 0101011101 1101110101 1101110101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 526
- Average number of words per stanza: 97
- Amount of lines: 51
- Average number of symbols per line: 40 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; no, to, me are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words if, this are repeated.
The author used the same word o at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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