This is an analysis of the poem Song Of Death that begins with:
Old Woman Census-taker,
Death the Trickster,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaXX bcdc eabe eXXX eXdX efaf
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1101010 1010 111001 111110 10111 10101 11111 1111 1010001 10010 1010111 1111 011101 110110 0101000 101 111111 1110111 1111 101 11001 11001 11011010 1101
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 90
- Average number of words per stanza: 17
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 22 (very short strings)
- 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; find, you are repeated.
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