This is an analysis of the poem Sonnet: Oh! Death Will Find Me, Long Before I Tire that begins with:
Oh! Death will find me, long before I tire
Of watching you; and swing me suddenly ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXa bcbc dedeXcc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,7,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 11011101110 0101111100 00011100110 0011110100 11111101110 10110101001 11010111010 11011111111 1110111101 1111010101 1001011111 110100101001 1111110101 1000010101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 154
- Average number of words per stanza: 27
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (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; and, i are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
The author used the same word and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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