This is an analysis of the poem Whispers Of Heavenly Death that begins with:

WHISPERS of heavenly death, murmur'd I hear;
Labial gossip of night--sibilant chorals;... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: abXcdXb bdad XXc
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,4,3,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: Shakespearean sonnet
  • Metre: 10010011011 10100110010 11100101001010111 10001101001010010 10 100010010100010010 1 1111101110 100101110010110 01101110111 01011010 110001011001011 10010101000 1101010
  • Amount of stanzas: 3
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 223
  • Average number of words per stanza: 31
  • Amount of lines: 14
  • Average number of symbols per line: 47 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • 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; of is repeated.

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