This is an analysis of the poem Death And The Fool that begins with:
Here is a tale for any man or woman:
A fool sought Death; and braved him with his bauble... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbacddcddedde
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: sonnet with trochaic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 10011101110 01111110010 01011111010 11011101010 11011101010 110111010010 10011101010 100101100010 11010110110 11010111110 11110111110 11010111110 100101010010 00111101010
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 651
- Average number of words per stanza: 120
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 46 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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