This is an analysis of the poem The Dying Philosopher that begins with:
I have crept forth to die among the trees.
They have sweet voices that I love to hear, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abacdeaafdgchXifajcchkecigglbekdXgbbeakeXfmaelfajeXidfimaem
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 59,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1111010101 1111011101 1111011011 0101001111 1110111111 1011001111 11010101001 0111011101 1001010001 1111011101 1001011011 0101010101 11010111001 01110001101 1101110101 11011011101 1111111111 1111010111 0101110100 1111110111 1001110111 1111011110 0100110101 1101011111 1101010001 11001001111 010100101001 0101110100 1101110101 0101000101 0111110101 0100010100 1111010101 11001111101 11001001111 1101011111 1101001101 1100011011 1101001101 1111010111 0111110111 0111010101 10010101001 1101010101 01001111101 0101010100 11010101101 0111011101 101010100101 1111011101 0101110011 1101111101 0101011101 01110111001 1111011111 1011011111 1011110111 010010001001 010100111
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 2634
- Average number of words per stanza: 475
- Amount of lines: 59
- 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; have, her, my, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, to are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines here is repeated).
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