This is an analysis of the poem The Epitaph On Captain Matthew Henderson that begins with:
STOP, passenger! my story's brief,
And truth I shall relate, man;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab cbcb cbcb dbdb XbXb bbXb ebeb cbcb Xbbbb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,5,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11001101 1111011 11110111 1101011 01010101 1111011 01010101 1101011 01010101 1101011 11010101 1101011 01111111 1101011 11111111 1101011 01110101 1101011 11010111 1101011 01110101 1001011 01011111 1101011 011111110 1111011 011101110 1101011 01010101 0111011 11110001 1101011 110100101 1101011 011101001 01010011
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 129
- Average number of words per stanza: 25
- Amount of lines: 44
- Average number of symbols per line: 26 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and is repeated.
The author used the same word if at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word man at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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