This is an analysis of the poem The Trifler that begins with:
Death's the lover that I'd be taking;
Wild and fickle and fierce is he....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab cdcd Xebe eeee fefe
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101011010 11101101 101011010 11111101 101011011 11101111 111101011 11111101 101111110 11100101 111111011 11111101 111111010 11111101 111001010 11100101 1011001010 11100111 111011110 1101001001
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 152
- Average number of words per stanza: 30
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 37 (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; must, i, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word i is repeated.
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- summary of The Trifler;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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