This is an analysis of the poem When I Am Dead that begins with:
When I am dead, if some chastened one
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Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcXcX dadXeceX fgfggcgX gbgbgcgX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111101101 10010111001 1110101111 1110101101 011111111 10011100 1011010001 110010101 1111101101 1110110101 11110011011 111100111 1111100111 1110011001 01111111 111100101 1111101111 10101111 110101111 10101111 00111011 100100101 10101111 1110101011 101110101 101001001011 111101101 1111101111 1011011011 111101101 0111111011 11011001010
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 320
- Average number of words per stanza: 62
- Amount of lines: 32
- 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; my, and, me are repeated.
The author used the same word or at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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