This is an analysis of the poem Because I Could Not Stop For Death that begins with:
Because I could not stop for Death-
He kindly stopped for me- ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Xabc daXc XXee XfeX ggfgXdabc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01111111 110111 01011101 110100 11011111 111101 11011101 100100 11011101 101001 11010101 110101 110111 01110011 11010011 110101 11010111 010001 01110100 010001 11110011 110101 11010101 0010100
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 119
- Average number of words per stanza: 21
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (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.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; we, passed are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words we, the are repeated.
The author used the same word we at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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