This is an analysis of the poem Sonnet -- Ye Hasten To The Grave! that begins with:
Ye hasten to the grave! What seek ye there,
Ye restless thoughts and busy purposes... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXababccbdcdcc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 1100011111 1101110100 001011011001 1111110001 1111010101 11010011101 1111110111 1111011111 1101011111 0111111101 1001010011 0100010011 1111111111 1001000101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 622
- Average number of words per stanza: 111
- Amount of lines: 14
- 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; ye, thou are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word ye is repeated.
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