This is an analysis of the poem The Wishfulness Of Their Own Deaths that begins with:
With an attempt to defeat,
Their own demise they amongst themselves....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ABCdef fgecg ABCcccc dhXcggaXheXcdabge
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,5,7,17,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0101001 110110101 110010 1 1010101010 010001 011010010 101110 1110000110100 010101 10010 0101001 110110101 110010 110011001111 1110011101 1101101 100001110011 0100101111 1101011100 001001001 101110110001 100010001 011110010 1000111 01101 11110101100 01000111 1 0110 0010001 010011001 010100010000010 11010111101
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 229
- Average number of words per stanza: 38
- Amount of lines: 34
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.
The author used the same word with at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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