This is an analysis of the poem The Time Before Death that begins with:
Friend? hope for the Guest while you are alive.
Jump into experience while you are alive!...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaaXb ac defeXXbgc XX XgdXf
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,2,9,2,5,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1110111101 100010011101 11111101 11110001001 011 0111111101 111101010 00101010100010 101010010 101100 1011011 011101 1010110101000 1001 011100011001 1101010101010 1100011110100 010011 101010101011 00001000010101 11101 111110101010100
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 146
- Average number of words per stanza: 28
- Amount of lines: 22
- Average number of symbols per line: 39 (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; you, while, alive are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines alive is repeated).
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