This is an analysis of the poem And Death Shall Have No Dominion that begins with:
And death shall have no dominion.
Dead man naked they shall be one...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AaaabaabA AcXcdeedA AfXXaffaA
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,9,9,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11111010 11101101 0010011011 11111110111 111111111 11111101 11110111101 11001111 11111010 11111010 10010001 1101111100 101111011 100111111 10111101 1010110101 1111111 11111010 11111010 11111111 111110100 11010101011 101001001 11011111 10010010110 100110111 11111010
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 360
- Average number of words per stanza: 68
- Amount of lines: 27
- Average number of symbols per line: 39 (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; and, they, though, no are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words though, and are repeated.
The author used the same word and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines dominion is repeated).
The poet repeated the same word dominion at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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