This is an analysis of the poem Unluckily For A Death that begins with:

Unluckily for a death
Waiting with phoenix under...

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  • Rhyme scheme: XabbXXcaccadea dfddfgfcbbdXhf bgdXbXbdcebaXb feafeihXhcdhib
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,14,14,14,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1000101 1001010 0101001001111 1101001 11110001010 111101010011 1010011101 101111010 1010111 01010101101 001010110 0010100001001 0111111010010 0011010 1010111 1101010 1001011011111 001001 00010101110 100110010001 1111010101100 111101 010110101001 0101011010011 101111 0101011010100 10111111101011 01101110 1101001 0001001 011111100101 01111100 0111011000101 11010111001 0110001001110 1111110 1001101001010 110101010010 10010010 111101010010 001010101010 101010 1111100 100110 101011101001010 1001100 11101110110 11001011010 0101001111101 0110010 101010101111 10000101101 10011110 1010101111111 0110011100101001 1010111
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 562
  • Average number of words per stanza: 105
  • Amount of lines: 56
  • 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; of, and are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words is, the, and are repeated.

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