This is an analysis of the poem The Beauty Of Death Xiv that begins with:

Part One - The Calling
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  • Rhyme scheme: a bcbdeb bff gc hXffXh chihX a jeghjhkff hcdhcc h ihfhiXgiXXXicX bbfkhcXfdhi iffiXccX Xfdbhgiai
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,6,3,2,6,5,1,9,6,1,14,11,8,9,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11010 111111001010011 1111110110100111 10101100101111 10101011010110 0111010111011001 11101011101110 11100101011101110 1010111011110 100111010111001 1001110101010111 010100011011111 1111111111010 1110101 11010110101001 011110100 1111100100100100 011 11111111110101 10101110111010 1010111010111111 1010111101101011 1101000010011 110010 111010111101000 10000110110 11110110101011 1001011 010101010011001010 1001001010011010 0101111010010110 11100111010101 111011 01001101001 110101000101010 11111101000100 0011000010010 1110110 110101101 11001 011001101111 01010110 111000100101101 011001010 01111110111 1110111101010100 1011010011011101 100100111 011010100010110 11111010100101 111001001 1101010101 1101010010111 1111011011000 110110011 10101110101 1100001010 111001010011110 0010101000111 1010010111111100 11011001011 11101110101 1011001010 111011101111 011111 10111010111101 10111101011101 1010111111101 0101010110111 101111111010010 1010011001 10110001010011 110011100100 111111101111 101010001010 110110110101010 11010011000100101 11001011011011 11110010111 101111110101010 0010111
  • Amount of stanzas: 14
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 297
  • Average number of words per stanza: 56
  • Amount of lines: 94
  • Average number of symbols per line: 44 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • 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, my, let, of, in, i, with, me are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words let, i, and are repeated.

    The author used the same word let at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines and is repeated).

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