This is an analysis of the poem An Ode, On The Death Of Mr. Henry Purcell that begins with:
Late Servant to his Majesty, and Organist of the Chapel Royal, and of St. Peter's Westminster
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- Rhyme scheme: X a bccbdaddXa X eeffXfgggghgh X aabbcciic
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,1,10,1,13,1,9,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11000100110000101010110110 1 11011101 0101 1111001 0100001 100101 1100010101 1111001 10010001 110110110110 11011001 1 1101011011 1111110101 11110100111 0111 011101 111101 11111100001 1101 11001 111101 0101001111 11100111101 111101 1 01010110101 1101010001 110101 110111110111 1100011101 0101111101 1101110111 0111010101 110111
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 178
- Average number of words per stanza: 33
- Amount of lines: 36
- 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, list'ning, silent are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines man is repeated).
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