This is an analysis of the poem Maran-Milan (Death-Wedding) that begins with:
Why do you speak so softly, Death, Death,
Creep upon me, watch me so stealthily?...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXXbcadbe afggcabhi aijjkjbaf bajbdliga kegggagbl abXiceamn hlbcecmii bcnjdbjXa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 111111011 1011111100 0011010101 11010101110 1110110001 100111011 101101101 10101000111 1101010111 01000110111 110110101 1111101011 0111110011 01111110101 01010011011 111100011 1110101111 1111111111 110001111 110000001 1010011011 0110110101 0101000111 01111100101 1100110111 10101011 0111010111 1111010101 0101011101 101010111 0101010101 01011111101 0100110101 0101010111 01001010101 010101011 1111010101 11011101 11011010101 10001110101 10010100101 10110100111 01011101101 001011011001 01001010011 1111111011 111100111 101011011000 1011101101 11001110111 1110111101 1110110111 111101110 0101011111000 0110101011 11011111 1111100001 01110101010 001010011111 01001011111 1000111101 1101010111 11111101 111011101 110011011 1001100100 1111110001 11100011001 0101110111 1111100101 1111001000 01111111
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 383
- Average number of words per stanza: 72
- Amount of lines: 72
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (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; you, in, your, his, her, and, me, death, my are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words his, the are repeated.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase death connects the lines.
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