This is an analysis of the poem The Dread Beyond Death that begins with:
WHY do you shudder and stare,
Grown cold in a moment and white?...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcdcdededfgfghXhX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 20,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111011 11001011 01101101 01001001 101001101 101101001 101011011 101101001 11011011 101101101 101101001 01011001 11101011 01101011 11001101 11101011 11101001 101101110 01011111 101011111
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 711
- Average number of words per stanza: 145
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (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; and is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words as, my are repeated.
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- summary of The Dread Beyond Death;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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