This is an analysis of the poem Dies Irae that begins with:
On that great, that awful day,
This vain world shall pass away. ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccaaddbbeeaabbbbccaaffgghhaahhhhbbiihhaaddjjfcbbaaaaggbbii
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 62,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111101 0111101 1010101 1110101 1100101 10010101 1010101 1010111 1001101 10100101 1010011 1010001 0010101 10010101 1010001 1110101 1010101 1010001 0111001 0111101 1110101 1110101 0110111 01100111 10101010 10101010 1101111 1100101 1111111 1111111 1111000 0111111 00100001 0011001 1011101 1110101 1110101 1110111 1110101 1000101 1100101 1010101 1110111 1010101 1011111 1110111 1100111 1111101 00110010 0011011 1100111 1111111 11101011 10001011 1010011 1010101 10001001 1011101 1110111 1010111 1010101 11111111
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 2010
- Average number of words per stanza: 367
- Amount of lines: 62
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- 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; what, of, from are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words thus, what, to, of, from are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines thee is repeated).
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- summary of Dies Irae;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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