This is an analysis of A Fragment Of Seneca Translated by Lord John Wilmot.

After Death nothing is, and nothing, death,
The utmost limit of a gasp of breath.…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aabbccbbddeefffcfc
  • Stanza lengths: 18,
  • Metre: 1011001101 0111000101 1001010101 01010110101 11011111 10011111 10011101 1101010001 1011010101 1101011111 010011011 0101011011 11101111 110101001 01111011 0011011101 11010101 110111
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: heroic couplets
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 18

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