This is an analysis of the poem Upon The Punishment Of Death that begins with:
YE brood of conscience--Spectres! that frequent
The bad Man's restless walk, and haunt his bed--... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababaccaaXbdbd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 1101010110 0111011101 1011111010 01110010111 11010110100 1001000101 0100111101 11001011101 1101110101 0101111001 1111010110 0011111111 01010010011 01110101001
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 613
- Average number of words per stanza: 107
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (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.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to is repeated.
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