This is an analysis of the poem Passer Mortuus Est that begins with:
Death devours all lovely things;
Lesbia with her sparrow...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXa bXXb XcXc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10101101 100010 10100000 1001010 10000111 101100 10101001 011010 1011111 111010 1110111 111010
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 107
- Average number of words per stanza: 18
- Amount of lines: 12
- Average number of symbols per line: 26 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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- summary of Passer Mortuus Est;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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