This is an analysis of the poem Lycidas that begins with:
In this Monody the author bewails a learned Friend, unfortunately
drowned in his passage from Chester on the Irish Seas, 1637;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXbcd eebbeefgefgebehiijkccbhhbcbcddhddhiicckXccckkkekelXlmmggcecdedeebkjbekbkbkkXkhhkkXbXbkbkmmkckXakbcbnncfoofXfncXXcnbnddbdkbkpbpbpbeXdkdkjjjkkkkcddXbkbkkkkkbkbbbbdbqqebebbemmkiXirrkrkeebbXmXmkmff
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,193,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 001000101001101000 10010010101011 1 1010100010010101010 11 1111110111 1101010101 1101110111 101101 10110101001 1001110101 0110011101 1100011101 1100111101 1111110011 0101110101 11110101001 1011000101 01010101001 0111000101 10010101101 0111110101 1001011101 111101 0101101101 111101 1111001101 1101010111 1011110111 0101101101 10010011001 1101110101 1101110101 10011001101 1101111101 01100111001001 1101010011 1000101 1101110101 0011110101 1110010111 1101011111 1111110101 1101011101 01110101100 111101 0111010101 111101 1011010111 1101010001 1110010111 11010111111 110111 1100110101 1011100101 11001011100 1100110101 1111010101 1101010101 1111010101 111101 11010111111 11010111001 0101100101 1101010001 11011101001 0101010111 10110001001 0111001001 0101010101 1101010101 0011011101 0101010001 100100101 10011011011 1101000101 01011101001 1011011101 1101100101 1011000011 110111110100 10011111001 1011111101 1001001 11001101101 1111011111 1011001101 1101010111 011101001110 110100111001 1101010101 1111100101 111101 1100010001 1101001 1101110101 1111110101 11010010101 11011101000 1110010 1110001101 1101100101 0111110101 110010101 0111011001 10001110101 1111110101 110100101101 0101010101 1001011101 10110100101 1111011110100 111101 0100010101 1101110101 01010010110 1101011110 1111111111 1001111101 1101110001 01011101001 1101010101 1101010101 1111011101 0111111101 1001010101 1100111111 1111111101 1111010101 0101111111 1101101111 1100110101 0110110101 10010011101 1111010101 110011111100 011001101 11110101001 1101110101 11110000101 1101101101 0111011101 11110111001 11011110001 110111010010 11010101010 1011110101 0101111100 0111010101 010100 0111010110 0101110101 1100101101001 1100010101 1100011101 01010011101 1101010101 1111100101 1111011101 11011001111 1001010100 1101100101 1001000101 1101011101 1101001001 1011000101 10110011001 1101011101 1111010101 1111010111 1100110011 11100101001 1101100101 1110010101 1101101101 1001000101 1100111101 1011011101 1101110101 01010101110 1101000101 0011010111 1101110101 0101110100 1111001101 1101110001 1100010111 1111010001 0111011100 01110011001 11011100111 1011110101 11010101001 01011000101 1101111101 1111000101 1111110101 0110111101
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 4306
- Average number of words per stanza: 760
- Amount of lines: 199
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (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; in, and, lycidas, to, that are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, or, nor, the are repeated.
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- summary of Lycidas;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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