This is an analysis of the poem Of Death that begins with:
Death, as a king rampant and stout
The world he dare engage;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab cdcd dada dXda eded ffff gaha igig Xeee jkjk lmlm naia klkl ndid ffff dXda odod gigi faXa dldl apam ilil qdqd klkl fafa klkl emem anXn arar imim dldl mama mipi acac mrmr kmXm eded imip kfkf meme eaea mama ekek iddd aaaa XeXe lflf dada hmgp dldlXdddd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11011011 011101 11011111 011111 11111111 111101 11110101 110101 11010001 011101 11010101 111101 11000101 110101 01011101 110111 01110101 111111 11010101 111001 01110101 011001 01111011 101101 01011101 010111 11010110 110111 11110111 011101 11111111 110111 10110100 110101 01011001 110001 01111101 011101 11010001 111001 11011111 011101 11111111 111111 11010101 110111 11011111 111001 11110101 111101 11011111 010101 01010111 110001 11100111 110111 11110111 110011 11010111 110111 11111101 110001 01110111 110101 11111101 111111 11111111 011111 01000111 110001 01111111 101101 11111111 010011 01011111 111001 10111101 111101 11110101 110111 11111101 111110 10010101 110111 11111101 110101 01111101 111101 11111111 111101 11110111 111111 11110111 100111 11011101 110111 11001111 111101 11101111 111111 10110101 110011 11010111 011101 11110101 110111 11011111 111100 11011101 010101 11011011 111001 10010111 110111 10011101 110101 11010111 100011 11011111 101111 111111111 111111 11111111 011111 11111101 110111 01011001 111111 11010101 110111 11110100 110101 11010101 001101 01110101 1111001 11010101 100101 10111101 011101 11010001 111111 11111111 111101 11001001 110101 11011001 110111 11010001 010101 01010101 010100 11011111 010101 11110111 110101 11111100 010011 11011111 010111 11011100 011101 11011101 111111 11011101 101011 11111101 111111 00110101 011111 10010101 010111 10111111 011001 01110101 110101 011100101 111101 00110101 011101 11011111 001101 1110111 010100 00011101 111111 11110111 010111 01010111 011101 01100001 1101001 11110110 010101 01010111 010100 01010001 111101 11111101 1001101 11011101 110111 11110101 111101
- Amount of stanzas: 51
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 126
- Average number of words per stanza: 25
- Amount of lines: 204
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, to, their, thy, in, i, he, his, that, those are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, to, and, that, with, a, his are repeated.
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- summary of Of Death;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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