This is an analysis of the poem On The Death Of M. D’ossoli And His Wife Margaret Fuller that begins with:

OVER his millions Death has lawful power,
But over thee, brave D’Ossoli! none, none....

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XabXXXcXXXbXdXbecbXXcXeda
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 25,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 10010111010 1101110011 1001010001 1001000110 1101110101 0001010101 0101010101 1011010101 1111000100 0101000111 11010001001 1111010111 1101010101 1010101101 0100010101 0111001001 01000111001 1011010100 1001111111 1101011101 1011001101 1111010101 1111011101 10010101001 1111110101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1059
  • Average number of words per stanza: 200
  • Amount of lines: 25
  • Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 8
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, her are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word of is repeated.

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