This is an analysis of the poem On The Death Of Mr. Crashaw that begins with:
Poet and Saint! to thee alone are given
The two most sacred names of earth and heaven,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabcdddd eeaaddbbffddggbXhhhh aabcggee iiaajXjjbb kkllmmkkkkbb eehhllllhXnnbboo
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,20,8,10,12,16,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 10110101110 01110101110 0111010110 1101100100 1001010101 1111000101 1101111101 110101101101 1101100111 1100110111 1101011101 1101011111 1001000001 1111111101 11110110101 110111010110 1011010101 01001111111 1111110101 1101111101 11111111001 1101010101 1001010101 1101010101 1111111001 110100111101 11001011101 1011111100 1101110001 0101110101 1001010110 1010110100 1101010101 101101110101 0001010001 0101011101 1111010111 1111011101 0111011101 11010001001 11110101101 01011111010 1011101101 110101010101 1101111111 1111110101 1011010101 1101110111 11001011100 1101110010 1101011111 1111010001 11110010101 1011111110 0101011101 0101011001 111101000 1111110101 1101011101 1101010001 01111100011 0111011100 100110101010 0111010101110 1011010111 1101010101 1001100111 1111011100 1111111111 1100011001 11110111100 11111101011 1111101101 110101110101
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 566
- Average number of words per stanza: 101
- Amount of lines: 74
- Average number of symbols per line: 45 (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; and, still, thy, by, i are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, ah are repeated.
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