This is an analysis of the poem An Elegy On The Death Of The Virtuous Lady Elizabeth, Countess Of Rutland that begins with:
I may forget to drink, to eat, to sleep,
Remembering thee: but when I do, to weep... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbcXddefgghhiiiiiibheejjcckkllefggXclliicXefhhmmiicckknneeooXhnnjjeemmddiiefnnccmmppcceehXiippiihXjjddohoojjeeccnn
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 116,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 1101010101 01001111101 0111111111 1001011111 1111010101 1001011100 1001011001 0101001101 1110111110 1101011100 0101010011 1101110101 1101111001 1111011101 0011110111 1101110101 1011111101 1101011011 1111111111 1101011101 1111101101 1011010101 1111111101 1101010101 11001001101 1001010101 1101010111 1001011111 111110111 1111111010 1111110101 1001011101 1001010101 1101000100 1111011101 1101011111 0111100101 1101010101 0111110101 1010010101 1111111101 0011010101 001101011 0101111111 1101001111 1001011100 1111110101 1011011100 1111011101 1011110101 0011101101 1101010101 1111011101 1001011101 1111111011 1011010101 1101010111 0111110101 1111011010 1111011111 1111010001 1101010111 1011010010 1100010101 1101111101 0011010101 1001010101 1110011101 1101110111 1111011111 1111001011 1110010101 0101100101 0111110111 1111011101 11010010001 00110110110 1111011100 11001010111 0111011011 1111001101 11010000111 1101010111 0100110101 1011011101 1011010111 11110100111 0101010001 0100010111 0110110001 1101011100 1011011000 0111010101 1101011100 1101111101 0101011011 0101010101 1111011101 1101010100 1111011000 0101010111 1101110101 11001010111 1101110011 100111 1101010111 1101101101 1111010011 0101010111 0100010101 0101111101 0101001101 1111110101 11000101101 1011011111 1101000101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 4908
- Average number of words per stanza: 944
- Amount of lines: 116
- Average number of symbols per line: 41 (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, they, thou, as, and, her, you are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words they, that, the are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines wit is repeated).
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase gone connects the lines.
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