This is an analysis of the poem Lover's Gifts Xliii: Dying, You Have Left Behind that begins with:

Dying, you have left behind you the great sadness of the Eternal
in my life. You have painted my thought's horizon with the sunset...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XaXXXXaXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 10111011011000010 0111110110100011 1001010100101010 1011010111111 0100100101 1111111010010001 110101100100111 11111011110110 010101110001011
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 555
  • Average number of words per stanza: 105
  • Amount of lines: 9
  • Average number of symbols per line: 61 (very long strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 12
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; you, of, in are repeated.

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