This is an analysis of the poem On The Death Of Swinburne that begins with:

He trod the earth but yesterday,
And now he treads the stars. ... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XabbX cXddc aXeea aXbba
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,5,5,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11011101 111101 11100101 11110001 110101011101 11110011 0101001 110100010 111101010 010101110111 11010101 111101 11011101 11010101 110001110101 11010101 011111 10010101 11011111 100101110101
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 182
  • Average number of words per stanza: 34
  • Amount of lines: 20
  • Average number of symbols per line: 36 (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; he, and are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word he is repeated.

    The author used the same word he at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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  • summary of On The Death Of Swinburne;
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  • history of its creation;
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