This is an analysis of the poem If Death Is Kind that begins with:
Perhaps if Death is kind, and there can be returning,
We will come back to earth some fragrant night,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab Xcbc X
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,1,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0101011110010 1011011101 11110101110 1011010111 1011110101010 1011010001 110101000111 1101010111 010110
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 132
- Average number of words per stanza: 25
- Amount of lines: 10
- Average number of symbols per line: 39 (medium-length strings)
- 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 is repeated.
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