This is an analysis of the poem A Worldly Death-Bed that begins with:
Hush! speak in accents soft and low,
And treat with careful stealth...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcbdaca efgfchch ijfjedkd ldjdkhhh hbcbbmbm mngnjomo imlmdbobXifofhmcm
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,8,17,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11010111 110101 111100111 010011 10110101 110101 01011101 111111 10110101 110101 01000101 010111 01010001 100101 11010111 111101 01000101 111101 01010010 110111 11101111 010101 11010101 010101 11010101 110101 10111101 010101 01010101 011101 11011001 011101 10110111 110101 01010101 110101 11010111 010101 11110001 011101 11011100 101111 11011101 010001 10110111 111101 0100100101 110101 10010101 010101 11111111 111011 11111101 110101 01110101 111101 01111011 111001 11010011 110111 10110101 111101 110100110 010111
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 252
- Average number of words per stanza: 46
- Amount of lines: 64
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (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; and, her are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word for is repeated.
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