This is an analysis of the poem On The Death Of Sir Henry Wootton that begins with:
What shall we say, since silent now is he
Who when he spoke, all things would silent be?... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbacaaddcaeebbffggeehhffee
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 28,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1111110101 1111111100 1111010001 1101110101 1101110111 11010101100 1111010101 11001111101 01010111001 1101110101 1101011100 1011010101 1111010111 0111010001 1011011111 11011011001 1011010111 1101111101 1101001101 1001111001 1111010111 1101010101 1001110101 1101111101 110110101 0111111111 1111111111 1111110111
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1202
- Average number of words per stanza: 235
- Amount of lines: 28
- 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; he, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words who, he are repeated.
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