This is an analysis of the poem When Death To Either Shall Come that begins with:
When Death to either shall come,—
I pray it be first to me,— ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab cbcb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1101011 1100101 01011011 0111100 011111 11001111 1101001 0111111
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 118
- Average number of words per stanza: 26
- Amount of lines: 8
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (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; be is repeated.
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