This is an analysis of the poem The Poet To Death that begins with:
TARRY a while, O Death, I cannot die
While yet my sweet life burgeons with its spring; ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXb aXbX caca
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1001111101 11111100001 10111101001 110001 1001111101 01110011000 11100011101 111110 1001111101 01110111001 1111010101 111101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 151
- Average number of words per stanza: 28
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
- 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; my, and are repeated.
The author used the same word tarry at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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