This is an analysis of the poem To One Shortly To Die that begins with:
FROM all the rest I single out you, having a message for you:
You are to die--Let others tell you what they please, I cannot... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abba bbcXXXX XcXXaXa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,7,7,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0101110111001011 110111011111110 0100 1101110011111010111 10111110111110 1111011111111010 11100110110 111111110110 1011010110100010010 01011001001 0110100110000 0111010010101 1111110011 1011111101111 11110100111101011 101 101100110100010000 1110101101011
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 333
- Average number of words per stanza: 58
- Amount of lines: 19
- Average number of symbols per line: 52 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; you, i are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words i, you are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines it is repeated).
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase you connects the lines.
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