This is an analysis of the poem Death’s Genius that begins with:
Oh you who weep, brush all your tears aside!
And you who mourn, recall grief won’t abide!...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabb aaaa ccaa bbdd aaee aaff aegg aahh bbgg ggii ggjj eekk llff aamm ggnn
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1111111101 1111011101 1111111111 1101011101 1001010101 11011010101 0101100101 1111011001 11110011010 10110001010 0101010111 111000101 11001110101 1101111111 1101111111 1101010101 1111101101 1111111101 1111000101 1011110001 1011101101 1101010011 01010101110 11111111010 0011010001 0001010101 11001011001 0101000101 1001011101 1101011001 1101011101 01111001101 11001111101 1001111111 1001011111 1010110100 1101010111 01001010111 1111111101 1111100101 1101100111 1101011111 1001000111 11011101001 1111010101 0101000101 1111011011 1110100011 1100010101 1101110111 1101011111 11101110101 1101011101 1111010111 1011010101 1111110101 1011010011 1101011001 0100010101 1101011101
- Amount of stanzas: 15
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 177
- Average number of words per stanza: 34
- Amount of lines: 60
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (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; you, your, in, what, that, each, and, s are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words though, what, each, in, and, whose are repeated.
The author used the same word and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Death’s Genius;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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