This is an analysis of the poem Death And His Brother Sleep (‘morphine’) that begins with:
There’s a mirror likeness between those two
shining, youthfully-fledged figures, though...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaXbcXXcbddXbb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: sonnet with trochaic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 10010100111 101001101 111010101101 111011011010 1111111000001 111110011101 101110101 011010111011 11010110011 110101110101 10101110011 0101010011 101010101 1010010101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 671
- Average number of words per stanza: 121
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 47 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; more, his are repeated.
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