This is an analysis of the poem A Description Of Fever that begins with:

Up to her left side leapt infernall Death,
His head hid in a cloud of sensuall breath;... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: aaXXXXbbbbXcccbXddaaeeffgg
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 26,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 1001111001 0110010101 10110010110 1011011010 1001010101 10110011000 1001010101 1001010101 1001011101 11110110101 01010101010 1011110101 10010100101 101110101 1101110101 0111011101 10011010111 010100011 1011000101 1111100101 0111010111 10011010101 0101010101 1111010111 00110101001 10011101001
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1216
  • Average number of words per stanza: 200
  • Amount of lines: 26
  • Average number of symbols per line: 46 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 8
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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

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  • summary of A Description Of Fever;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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