This is an analysis of the poem Elegy Vi. To Charles Diodati, When He Was Visiting In The Country (Translated From Milton) that begins with:

With no rich viands overcharg'd, I send
Health, which perchance you want, my pamper'd friend;... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabbccddeeffffaaggeefXhhffffcciiaajjXjeXbbaakkjXaaddllffeeddhheeffjjXleehhccdXeehhffeeeellaa
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 92,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: heroic couplets
  • Metre: 011110111 1101111101 11001111101 0111010001 1101000111 1111011101 1111110101 1101110111 1100110101 0101011101 11010010010 1111010101 1111010101 0111010111 1101001001 0101010101 01011001101 1100010001 11010101001 1101111101 1011011001 11011100110 10010101001 10110001001 1011100001001 11010100101 0101010101 110100111 1101011101 1001001101 0101011101 1111011101 1101010101 1101110101 1101110111 01110101101 0111010110 1101010101 0101110101 01010001010 0110010101 1111110101 1111010111 1101101101 010100101001 1100111101 1101110011 1111010110 1101110001 1011110101 0101010101 1001010101 10111101001 01010100101 1111001101 11010101101 1101001101 1111001001 1011110101 1100010101 0101011101 10010011101 1111010001 0101010101 1101110111 0110010001 1101111101 1001010101 1111010101 01001000101 1111010101 0101000101 1101010101 11010000101 1101110101 1111000101 1111011001 1101000101 1101110111 1101110101 0101010111 1001011101 0111000101 1001010111 0101010101 1101111001 11011110001 1101000111 01110100101 01011101001 1101010101 1101110111
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 4082
  • Average number of words per stanza: 693
  • Amount of lines: 92
  • Average number of symbols per line: 43 (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; verse, wine, her, and, in, their, of, thus are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, would'st are repeated.

    The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The words/phrases pure, verse connect the lines.

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