This is an analysis of the poem On The Day Of Gogol's Death that begins with:

How blessed's the good-natured poet,
With little bile and much emotion:...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcd edad fgeh aehi fcec agXe Xbdfijkk kdkj eceX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,8,4,4,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: ballad stanza
  • Metre: 110001010 010111010 11000101 1110010 01010001 100111001 10010011 11000101 1001010100 10010110 11010101 001101 10111101 11010101 11010001 01000101 1101110 0111010 11100101 01010101 011001 01110110 11010101 010101 100111001 110101010 10110001 10110100 01011101 001101 110101 1100010 01100100 10011101 11110111 1101011 111101001 11011101 11011110 1101111101
  • Amount of stanzas: 9
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 137
  • Average number of words per stanza: 25
  • Amount of lines: 40
  • Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • 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; his, of are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words his, he are repeated.

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