This is an analysis of the poem Looking Death In The Face that begins with:
AY, in thy face, old fellow! Now's the time.
The Black Sea wind flaps my tent-roof, nor wakes ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcdefghifaXjhiXkXlXab mn dhcgnogcfhohdbihdbhifhhkdjmcddXeXjfifafhfcmghbehhglXpdglcXhpocgp bpgoXibbp
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 22,2,64,9,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1011110101 0111111111 1101110111 10111010101 010 1001101 11001010111 0101111011 101101 1111 1001110101 111111 1111 11110111001 1111101111 0100110000 10 10 111011 110111 1111 1101010110 1100111101 010 11110111 1011111111 10110011101 11110110111 110100101010 01010110101 1111011101 1101010111 11001101101 1101111101 0111011101 1010111101 11010111 11 0101111111 11010111101 1101001101 1100010111 1111011111 1101110111 0101010001 1101010101 1001011111 01010101001 1101011101 111111 1111 10110 11011 11110111101 1000111001 1001011101 0101110111 1111111101 1111010111 110101 1101 01101010011 1111110101 1011010100 0111010111 0101111111 1110111101 0001001101 1011011101 1011000100 1111011101 0101101 1101 11110001101 1001010111 1101010100 0111010101 011011011010 1001011101 0100110101 11110110101 1011001100 110101 1111 11110110101 0101111101 1100010100 1111011111 1101010100 11001101111 1101100101 01011011111 1001001000 01110110101 10 1101111001 1101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 929
- Average number of words per stanza: 169
- Amount of lines: 98
- 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; it, i are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word i is repeated.
The poet repeated the same word die at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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