Imploring To Be Resigned At Death by George Moses Horton: poem analysis

This is an analysis of the poem Imploring To Be Resigned At Death that begins with:

Let me die and not tremble at death,
But smile at the close of my day, ... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: ababB cbcbB dbdbB ebebBXdbdbB
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,5,11,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: ballad stanza
  • Metre: 111111011 11101011 11101011 101001001 11001 111011001 11011101 101101011 001001001 11001 111101001 11001001 11001001 11001001 11001 111101001 11001001 101011001 11001001 11001 111111101 11101101 111101001 11101111 11001
  • Amount of stanzas: 5
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 164
  • Average number of words per stanza: 32
  • Amount of lines: 25
  • Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
  • 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; at, of, to are repeated.

    The author used the same word let at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

    The poet repeated the same word away at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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