This is an analysis of the poem On The Death Of Mr. William Hervey that begins with:
IT was a dismal and a fearful night:
Scarce could the Morn drive on th' unwilling Light, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaaXbaab ccddeaaf ffbbffff gghhdeed ffbbiddi Xchhjaaj aafeakka aabblcXl efaafaaf mmnndbbd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 0101010101 11011110101 1111011101 11010110 1101010001 11111011 11010001 1111111111 1101011101 1111111001 1111011101 11111101 1111011100 100011101 11010101 1111011101 1101111111 11011101000 1111010101 111111001 1011110111 11011101 111101 01110111111 1111110101 1110011101 101011111 10011001 1101010111 11010100 11001100 1111111101 1101011101 11111101001 1101011011 110111 10011011101 11110101 10010110 1101011101 11011101110 0100010101 110111001001 11110101 1111010101 101101 10011 1111110101 1011011111 1011101101 1011010101 11010100 100010110011 100101 1001001 1101110101 011011001001 1100011101 1111110101 100110011 1011011111 10110101 110101010 1011011101 0111010100 1111110111 1001010111 10111111 1101110011 10101001 11010111 0100010001 11011000101 11001010011 010111011101 11110101 1101111101 110001111 101111001 1101101111
- Amount of stanzas: 10
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 373
- Average number of words per stanza: 59
- Amount of lines: 80
- Average number of symbols per line: 46 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; my, as, his, and, he are repeated.
The author used the same word my at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines thee, wit are repeated).
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