This is an analysis of the poem Deaths And Entrances that begins with:
On almost the incendiary eve
Of several near deaths,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AbcaXdedbbcX AdaXedXccded AddaXbdXdfef
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,12,12,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1110010001 010011 1110110111 111111 1011000101 010101 1101000101 011111 1111011101 110111 100001 01010101001 1110010001 111111 10010010101 110101 110010100101 011001 1101010011 111111 1101101101 110101 0100111 1101010001 1110010001 011100 1111101101 111101 1100010111 110100 00111001111 010100 0101111101 111101 011111 1011001101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 417
- Average number of words per stanza: 74
- Amount of lines: 36
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
The author used the same word on at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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