This is an analysis of the poem Impromptu Of The Dead Boy that begins with:
Dead, the rests sweetly among the flowers in his coffin.
There are such moments when we living...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: a bccdadXXXXeaa deXcab ff XFdXXc cfXaXXF
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,13,6,2,6,7,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10110010100010 111101110 010100110 110010010110 11101010100010 011100010 10100110 11101010011 0100110111 01111010 010001010100 010110010001 01011010 111001010100010 11101111101100 101 0010010100111 100111010101 011101010 11011111111 1111011101 111011101 10110111 110111111101 1101110111100 0101101101001 111010110101 110101001111 010110011010010 0101011001 111001010100 11101111110101 110011000 111010011 110111111101
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 251
- Average number of words per stanza: 48
- Amount of lines: 35
- 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:
There are many exclamation marks in the poem. The speaker is excited. He or she has strong feelings on the subject that is described in the poem.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; that, he, not, any, more, go, away, your, of, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, a, he, what are repeated.
The author used the same word he 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 more is repeated).
The poet repeated the same word coffin at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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