This is an analysis of the poem Book Iii - Part 04 - Folly Of The Fear Of Death that begins with:

Therefore death to us
Is nothing, nor concerns us in the least, ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abccdbcedfcfBcegffhhiBjfebXachkhkdfhbgfedcfkcadljccm hgajbhjhhmhdmemmncaamdchnbhdXjickhbccXXgXdgcjkglopXambpmocqhcheabhbqmgagelXjbpodleXjddgbhbbeXeemdcXamkXceebbkfekodXldkbXXadodaglgffoeXpXjqehfqghXfchhkXdXbpegdaXahhXacekXheqedoaXdhfo
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 52,181,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 11101 0101011001 11001010101 1110010101 1111011111 01010101001 10110111001 10010101010 1011011101 1001010011 1111111111 111100011011 1111000101 1001011111 1101111101 1101010001 11010100111 01001110001 101100001001 1101011001 1110011101 1111000101 11001010101 0100111101 0101111001 01010101011 1111110111 1101010011 10010101111 1001110001 10100010100 1001011111 1001110101 001010101101 01001011111 1001101101 0111010101 0011011101 1011010001 10010011110 1100010111 1101010101 0111010111 0110110101 0111010101 1111111000 0101011111 1111110101 1011100101 1100111011 0101101101 110101100101 1111010101 1111010101 1100011101 1111111101 1110110101 1101011101 0101010101 1111011111 1111010111 0101010101 1111011101 1011100101 1101110011 0101111101 11001010101 10001010101 00101010100 0111010101 0111110101 1111010111 1011101101 011100101101 1101010111 101101001100 1001011111 00110111111 10011101101 1101010101 1011001101 1101110101 110001 1111 01011101110 11011101110 1101010011 1111010101 1001001111 11011100110110 100011110100 11110110101 010100010110 0011010101 1101010111 1101010101 1010111110001 1111010101 01010010111 1110101001 10011101010 1111011111 110010100010 1101010100 1111010101 0101011111 11011101011 0101110101 11010110010 01010010101 1101010101 11111101001 1111011101 01110101110 1111000101 0101010101 1101100111 1001010111 1011010011 00101011111 1111010101 0111000111 0111010001 0101011101 10001010101 1101010101 011010001010 0011010011 0111011101 111101 11010 1001010101 1011100111 10011101101 1110001101 1001011001 10111000101 0111011110 111010101 1101000011 10101000101 1001110110 1111110001 1011010110 1011110110 1101011001 0101011101 1111011101 01111110111 0101010111 01010111110 1000110101 10110101100 111010101 01011011010 1011011101 1011100111 1101011101 1000110101 11001110101 1111010111 1110000111 10011111101 1101011101 0010011111010 1111100010 1111011000 1101010111 1111010111 1101110101 1011000101 11111100011 10011111110 1011011101 10101111001 10010111110 0110010001 1110010001 0100011110 1101010101 1111010101 1111110101 0101011101 11100101010 10110101001 11011100 11 100111111 01001011101 1101010101 0100111111 1101110001 1101110101 1110011101 1100110100 0100011111 10011100100 0101010101 1011010001 11001110101 1001001111 1101011101 110100010 1001001111 1001010101 0101101101 1101010101 1111011101 1011111100 0101011101 0011010111 010011101 1001110101 1100101000010 0101110111 1001100100 0111000100 0101011101 0101010101 10110101101 11011110001 00101011000 0101010101 1111010101 1111110001 10011101101 10001101010 1101000111 1101111100 1101111101 00101101101 0111110001 10000101010
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 4992
  • Average number of words per stanza: 907
  • Amount of lines: 233
  • Average number of symbols per line: 42 (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, to, of, he, that, self, with, in are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, it, justly, to are repeated.

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

    The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase we connects the lines.

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  • central theme;
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  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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