This is an analysis of the poem Death that begins with:
Death is a road our dearest friends have gone;
Why with such leaders, fear to say, "Lead on?"... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXbbaaccddeee
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 13,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1001110111 101101011010 0101101101 1101100101 1011010101 1111100101 1011011101 10010010101 1111011101 1111111101 10111111010 111100111010 1111011001110
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 607
- Average number of words per stanza: 118
- Amount of lines: 13
- Average number of symbols per line: 46 (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; all is repeated.
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- summary of Death;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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