This is an analysis of the poem My Last Will that begins with:
When I am safely laid away,
Out of work and out of play, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccaadX aabXXdeeeeddeebbbb ffggeX ddhhiiaXjj jjjjddcckk lleebbmmmmbb ccjjffllnn jjddiiii iibbllbbaXddbbXjj
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,18,6,10,10,12,10,8,17,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11110101 1011101 1010101 0010111 1110111 0010111 1011101 1011101 1010101 0011000 1010100 1110101 1011101 1011000 1010101 1011111 1010111 1000101 10111010 10101010 1010101 1010101 111001 1110101 1110101 11011101 1111011 0010111 1011111 1110101 1010011 1111111 1111101 1101100 1010101 1110101 101010010 10101010 1110100 1110001 1111101 1100101 0110101 1001101 01111101 1111001 0110111 1011101 1000101 0110011 1110111 1011101 1000111 1110111 1011101 1101101 101110101 1010111 1111101 1000111 1011101 0010001 1010001 1110101 1011001 01110001 1001111 1011101 1011101 1001111 1110011 1110111 0011101 1010111 1010101 1010101 1011111 1010111 1110101 0010101 10101010 11111010 1010101 1111101 1110101 1011101 0110101 1011101 1111101 1111111 1010101 1010101 1010001 101111110 1110101 1011100 0110111 1010111 1110101 1110111
- Amount of stanzas: 10
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 332
- Average number of words per stanza: 58
- Amount of lines: 100
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (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; of, i, you, and are repeated.
The author used the same word we at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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