This is an analysis of the poem The Death Of The Fly that begins with:
WITH eagerness he drinks the treach'rous potion,
Nor stops to rest, by the first taste misled;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: a ba bccddXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,2,7,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01001101010 1101101101 100111110010 1110010101 1101110101 1101010111 1001001001110 01010101010 11111101010 1101011101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 152
- Average number of words per stanza: 28
- Amount of lines: 10
- Average number of symbols per line: 45 (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; his, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word no is repeated.
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