This is an analysis of the poem An Epitaph [hangman's Hands Laid In This Tomb An] that begins with:
Hangman's hands laid in this tomb an
Imp of Satan's getting, whom an... full text
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- Rhyme scheme: aaabbccaddee
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10110011 10101011 10101110 1011101 01010101 11010101 11110101 11111010 1010111 01010011 10111010 10101010
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 402
- Average number of words per stanza: 74
- Amount of lines: 12
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; his is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines an is repeated).
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