This is an analysis of the poem Tom Moody that begins with:

Death had beckoned with grisly hand
To the finest Whip in hunting-land. ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aaaabbccaaaaddccaX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 18,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: limerick
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11100101 001010101 11011101 10111111 111100101 0011111101 111101011 011111 101111101 0111100101 100100101 001111101 110100111 101001011 11111111 111100101 1110111111 101011101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 712
  • Average number of words per stanza: 138
  • Amount of lines: 18
  • Average number of symbols per line: 39 (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; to is repeated.

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