This is an analysis of the poem Finality that begins with:
When I am dead I will not care
How future generations fare,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaa bbb ccc ddd eee aaa bbb ccX fff ggg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 11111011 11010101 11001101 11111100 11010111 11111101 11010101 1110001 010011101 11011101 110011101 11010111 11110111 11110011 10110101 10111101 11001101 01110101 11011101 11110111 11011101 11111100 01010101 11011100 11110100 10010111 11110101 01010101 11010111 11110111
- Amount of stanzas: 10
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 103
- Average number of words per stanza: 20
- Amount of lines: 30
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, be, dead are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word i is repeated.
The author used the same words though, and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Finality;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
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