This is an analysis of the poem To A Young Poet Who Killed Himself that begins with:

1 When you had played with life a space
2 And made it drink and lust and sing,... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: ababcdcX efefdgdX cdcdfbfb egeghahX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 111110101 111011111 111010011 111100101 110111110011 11010111011 111011101 10100010110 111001101 111111111 111001101 111111011 111010111 1110111010 111111101 11101010100 111010111 101010101 101010111 111010101 111110101 1110111110 111110101 1110100010 1101011101 1110101010 111010101 1111101010 111110111 111111101 111110101 1111110110
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 338
  • Average number of words per stanza: 63
  • Amount of lines: 32
  • Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 8
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, you are repeated.

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