This is an analysis of the poem Robbed By Death—but That Was Easy that begins with:
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- Rhyme scheme: X aXXa Xbbb XXXa Xccc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1 11111110 00101 11101010 11100 10100100 01101 10100010 101010 10101010 10101 00100100 10100 101010010 10101 11101010 10001
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 81
- Average number of words per stanza: 15
- Amount of lines: 17
- Average number of symbols per line: 23 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 4
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; fraud, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word fraud is repeated.
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