This is an analysis of the poem The Dead To The Living that begins with:
Work while it is day: the night cometh, when no man can work.
IN the childhood of April, while purple woods ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: a bcbccdddbceccdfdcg hgcadabicicbXbjchc Xgcgekbkelclkijikmfmjbdb XcccbhkhcklkgiiiiebecdfdcecX lXXgdkfk
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,18,18,24,28,8,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11001011011111 00110101101 00111001 11101101001 11101001 1010110101 10011101 010100101 11001011 1011110101 1010111 1010101101 10111001 111101111 10111101 0100101001 10101101 1010110111 1011101 110011101 0101011 1100100111 1110101 11100101111 11111101 111101111 1100111 1111111111 01001111 101111101 0011110 11101101001 10100111 1011101001 11110101 110010101 1110111 1111100111 11111101 1100100111 1110111 011110111 0110111 111100101 00110111 1100100101 110111 1111101111 1101001 01111101 11110101 010110111 10111101 10111101111 11100111 110101111 1111011 110111111 01010010 111100111 01000111 111110111 1010111 1101101111 1101111 110101111 1010101 0110100101 1111101 101011011111 10010101 0111100101 11101101 0110100101 1101111 1100100111 01100101 100100111 11101001 11111101001 1100101 01001001001 10100101 1111100111 1111101 01100101111 1111101 1100110101 11001101 111111111 110111110 1110100101 1110111 111110101 11011001 1110101101 10111111
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 650
- Average number of words per stanza: 128
- Amount of lines: 101
- Average number of symbols per line: 38 (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, side, with, i, had, their, some, of, without, life, her, to, ' are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, the are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines ' is repeated).
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