This is an analysis of the poem The Dying Kid that begins with:
Optima quaeque dies miseris mortalibus aevi
Prima fugit-…... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXa bc ccdd ddcc eeff ddbb dddd ggcc bbdd gghh ccdd ggaaXffbb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,2,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10011100100010 1010 1 1010 1101011101 110101 01101101 01110111 0100111001 10010101 100010101 11111111 01010101 11010101 110100101 11111101 11110101 111100101 11010111 01010001 11010101 11110101 11110101 11011101 11010101 111101001 010010111 01010101 11100101 01010111 11110101 11010101 11001101 01011101 11010101 11010111 110101001 01011101 111101101 11110111 111101001 11110111 11010111 01011101 11110101 11100101 11100101 11011101 110111001 01111101
- Amount of stanzas: 13
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 132
- Average number of words per stanza: 24
- Amount of lines: 50
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
The author used the same word she at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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