This is an analysis of the poem Abscence that begins with:
Sleep is Death's image,-poets tell us so;
But Absence is the bitter self of Death,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab cdcd aeae
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1011010111 1100010101 1101111101 10111000111 1011110101 111111001110 10101110101 11010111010 0011011101 1111111101 11111001111 1100010111
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 178
- Average number of words per stanza: 33
- Amount of lines: 12
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (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.
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