This is an analysis of the poem It Was Not Death, For I Stood Up, that begins with:
It was not death, for I stood up,
And all the dead lie down;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXa Xbcb baba adXd ceXe bfef
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01111111 110111 01111101 111111 01111111 111001 110111101 110101 11010101 010111 11001100 010101 1011010 110001 11110101 1111111 11011111 111101 11011101 010101 11110101 010111 11000101 010101
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 119
- Average number of words per stanza: 23
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; for, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
The author used the same word it at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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