This is an analysis of the poem On A Lady With A Foul Breath that begins with:

Art thou alive? It cannot be,
There's so much Rottenness in Thee,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabbccdeffeeaaggeehhffggeeddaaaa
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 32,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11010100 11110001 01010001 11110111 11110111 11110111 11010101 11010101 01110101 11011101 11000111 11010001 01001111 11110111 11001101 10111001 01010101 11000111 10110101 10010101 10110101 01010101 11111101 01010101 11011101 101100101 11110111 11010101 11110111 11111111 11011101 10010101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1108
  • Average number of words per stanza: 209
  • Amount of lines: 32
  • Average number of symbols per line: 34 (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; thy is repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words thy, but are repeated.

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  • history of its creation;
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