This is an analysis of the poem The Dance Of Death that begins with:
I.
Night and morning were at meeting...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXbcddaaeeffggadda XeeedhhhdaaadiiXXhhhXijkXi XffllkkhhffdkkkdmmdmmdmmmnnmXam X b KKMOOM ffaooaddhffhKKMOOM aKknmmnhXiffi aKKMOOM hhnaanffcffc XKKMOOM ppdnnnnd XjXannaqqiffi
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 19,26,31,1,1,6,18,13,7,12,7,8,13,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1 11100110 10101 111110010 11111 1110111 1010111 1010101 01010101 11101110 10011010 1110101 1010011 1010101 101010 10101 1111101 1010101 111101 1 11101110 10111110 110111110 110101 110100101 11010111 10011101 010101 01010101 11110101 110111001 110111 1110111 1011101 1011010 10100 11111111 11111101 11010111 110111100 110111 11100101 1011011 110010110 010111 1 11011001 01010011 11110101 01010101 11010111 11110101 11110101 01110011 11010101 01000011 110101 11010101 1111101 11010101 110101 11011101 11010101 110101 11110101 11000101 0110001 10011101 11111101 010111 01110101 111111001 010111 11110100 10010101 100101 1 1 1011 1101 110101 1101 0101 010101 1101 1111 111101 11011101 11010101 111111 1101 1101 110111 1111 0101 0100111 1011 1101 110101 1101 0101 010101 1 1011 1101 111111 1111 1101 110111 0111 1100 110101 1111 0101 111111 1 1011 1101 110101 1101 0101 010101 1001 1111 0100101 0101 1111 111101 0101 1101 110111 10010111 110011101 1100111 1 1011 1101 110101 1101 0101 010101 11101010 1011101 10111 1110101 110011101 1010101 1010101 00101 1 11110101 100100111 010111 10110111 100011101 111101 11100101 11000101 011101 11011101 110110111 1101001
- Amount of stanzas: 13
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 350
- Average number of words per stanza: 62
- Amount of lines: 162
- Average number of symbols per line: 27 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, to, for are repeated.
The poet repeated the same word shroud at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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