This is an analysis of the poem The Dissolution that begins with:
She's dead; and all which die
To their first elements resolve;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXcbaXcddaXdeeffggdhhdd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 24,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111111 01110001 11010010001 1101010 11011001 1111010101 0101011100 1101110 110010101 1001110101 1101000 1111110100 1011110101 11111101 11110101101 111101 11010101 0111111101 0111011111 011011 1101 1111110001 0010110101 010101100010101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 857
- Average number of words per stanza: 156
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, of, my are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, this are repeated.
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