This is an analysis of the poem Post Mortem that begins with:

Happy people die whole, they are all dissolved in a moment,
they have had what they wanted,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcddceadafXgebadXhXbgXeiejfhegijXdd
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 36,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 101011111010010 1111110 1110010 10011100110100010 111110 010011010 01110001100001011 10011010 1101001 1010111011001 11000100010 0010101110 11001111100010 01011100 1101011 010010111011001 1010010 011011 110010101100 1011110100100 110011011 1011101001001 111010100 011001010 11101001000101100 1111010 10010001 100111111010 011001101 1100100101 01111110111010 01111001 111100010 011111011111100 100101010 01010101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1545
  • Average number of words per stanza: 298
  • Amount of lines: 36
  • 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; they, in, of, and are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words his, the are repeated.

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  • summary of Post Mortem;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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