This is an analysis of the poem Who Is He? that begins with:
Who is he, dying so hard?
Hard is it to die—...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abccddb ebbbXXb fagghha afhhiieef
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,7,7,9,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1011011 10001 100101 11101 100101 110101 10001 1011011 10001 110111 110011 110101 110101 10101 01100101 11101 1101011 1001001 100001011 1111001 100001 1111011 10101 110101 111001 100101 101101 1011101 100111 10001
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 195
- Average number of words per stanza: 41
- Amount of lines: 30
- Average number of symbols per line: 25 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; lie, to are repeated.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The words/phrases hard, die, lie, weep, dead connect the lines.
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