This is an analysis of the poem Laughter And Death that begins with:
THERE is no laughter in the natural world
Of beast or fish or bird, though no sad doubt ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababbcbcXdXdXc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 10110001001 0111111111 0110000001 1101010101 0101010101 00101010101 10011101001 0101010101 1101001101 1111001101 1011010101 0101011101 1101111100 1101111111
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 623
- Average number of words per stanza: 111
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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