This is an analysis of the poem On Death that begins with:
Deceitful worm, that undermines the clay,
Which slyly steals the thoughtless soul away,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabb ccdd ccee ffgg ccbb hhff iicX jjcc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 0101110101 1101010101 0101010101 1101011101 0101110101 0111010101 0101110101 1101010001 1011010111 1101010111 0101110001 1101010101 1011000101 1111111101 1111010101 1101010101 1011110101 1101010101 0101100101 0111100111 0101110101 11011101001 0101101001 1101010101 1001010101 1101110101 0101010101 1111010110 1101010101 11010101001 0101010101 110101010101
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 174
- Average number of words per stanza: 30
- Amount of lines: 39
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (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; with is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
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