This is an analysis of the poem Elegy To The Memory Of An Unfortunate Lady that begins with:

What beck'ning ghost, along the moon-light shade
Invites my steps, and points to yonder glade?... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aaaabbccdd eXXfffggfXhh ddiijj aakkeebbjjddXaddiX aaeeaaaaeeiijjllXciiXa llccdd mmffccXe
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,12,6,18,22,6,8,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: heroic couplets
  • Metre: 1101010111 0111110101 1111110101 1101010101 1101010101 0001010111 0111011101 0101010101 0111010001 1111011101 1111110101 01010101010 01011011100 01001010101 1011001101 1001011101 1111111111 1101000101 1101110100 1001110100 1101010111 1101011101 0101110101 11010001001 1001010101 1100110101 1101000101 1111000101 11110000110 1110001101 11110101001 1111010101 1011110101 1111011111 1001010101 1111111101 1101010101 1101010111 1100111101 1011010101 101011101010 1101010101 1100010101 0101110001 1101111101 11001111010 1101110101 1110011101 1101110101 1111111101 1101110101 1101110101 1101110101 11010011101 1111010101 11110011101 1101010001 0111010101 1111011101 1101010111 1111010111 11010101011 1111010101 1011110111 11010100101 1011000111 11001101100 01110111001 1101010101 1111010111 11110011011 0101011101 0101010101 1111110110 1001111111 1011110101 1111110101 1101010111 1001011111 1011111001 11010111010 01011101011
  • Amount of stanzas: 7
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 523
  • Average number of words per stanza: 94
  • Amount of lines: 82
  • Average number of symbols per line: 44 (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; too, to, and, of, thus, thy, by are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words to, thus, by, there are repeated.

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