This is an analysis of the poem His Death In Benares that begins with:
His death in Benares
Won't save the assassin...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXX XXX Xaa X
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,3,3,1,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 010100 110010 0101 101101 001001 1110101 11110 0111111 1110101 01111
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 59
- Average number of words per stanza: 12
- Amount of lines: 10
- Average number of symbols per line: 23 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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