This is an analysis of the poem The Dying Husband's Farewell that begins with:
I LEAVE them, now the trumpet calls away;
In vain thine eyes beg for some times reprieving;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXabbaX cbcbXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,7,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: sonnet with trochaic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 1101010101 01111111100 1011011001 01110101110 00110111110 1110001111 10010111110 1101011111 101111110010 11001011001 01011101010 10111101100 0011011001 111101111101
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 321
- Average number of words per stanza: 64
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 45 (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.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; in, them, thy, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word in is repeated.
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