This is an analysis of the poem An Essay On Death And A Prison that begins with:
A prison is in all things like a grave,
Where we no better priviledges have ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabXccccddeXeXfXbbXgccbbhfeeiifffXaaaaccggedjjXefXeefhccjjbbkkeellmmccbbXcbbbbjjnnXceeccXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 90,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 0100011101 1111010001 1111100111 11011111100 0101111101 0101011101 0100111101 1001010101 0100011101 100011001 1101011101 1111111000 0101010101 11001010110 1101011001 100111110 1101010111 1001111101 1111011101 11111100001 1101111101 1111010001 011010111 11110110001 1011010100 00010110011 1111001101 0111011101 0101001101 1101101100 1111011111 11010011101 1111101011 111101100 1001110101 1101001101 0101110101 1001011101 1111011111 1111010101 1101010011 1101111011 0111010111 1111110101 1111011111 1011011111 11111111010 010100111010 0101000111 010101010 01110010100 1111111100 1111011011 1111010100 1001010101 0101110001 1111111101 1101110001 1110111101 1001010101 1101010111 11010000101 0100110111 1101111101 11110111110 11011111010 1101010001 1001010111 1100110101 1111010101 1111010111 1001111100 0101110100 11110100111 110111101 10101011101 1101010111 110101110 0011010111 1011010101 0101110101 1011011101 1011010100 11110011101 01001011111 0011011111 1101011111 1101101101 1001011011 1101010101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 3941
- Average number of words per stanza: 714
- Amount of lines: 90
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (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; no, they, less, me, i are repeated.
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