This is an analysis of the poem Seven-Song Of Death that begins with:

Seven-Song of Death
So dawns the blue face of spring. Beneath the suckling trees...

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  • Rhyme scheme: X aabXc deaf cXcg bXh adb aagf ghXc e X XXXcX XXhX XcXX dXX hXg XXaX XiXi
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,5,4,4,3,3,4,4,1,1,5,4,4,3,3,4,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 10101 11011001010101 01010010101 010100101 0101010110 11001000011 100101010011 1001110 110100110011001 01010010 100101010010010 10101010011010 11111010 1001001101 10110011 001 1100101001010 0110100101 0011 01001010110100 101010011101010 111000101 10100010001 0101001 101011011010010 10001011010101 1011 10100101 01011010 11000110 101111010010 101100101100 101101110 10101111001 1101011 01011101000 11011000 10011010101 1010110 1000111110110 11111111 11011101010 111010 111111101 1101 111010110111 1001111101 1110 1011111001 111010101110100 111010001 111001011 10011 110111010110 10011111 10111011 110101
  • Amount of stanzas: 17
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 138
  • Average number of words per stanza: 23
  • Amount of lines: 58
  • Average number of symbols per line: 40 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of is repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.

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