This is an analysis of the poem To A Professional Eulogist that begins with:
Newman, in you two parasites combine:
As tapeworm and as graveworm too you shine.... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccddaaeeffaagghheeiibbjjaaee
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 32,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 1001110110 110011100111 1101000111 0101001111 111000111 0101000101 1101000111 11011101011 1111110011 1001010011 1101011111 10100111011 1111011101 1111111101 1001110001 11001101101 1001110101 11100100011 11010100101 110011011101 1111010111 1111010101 1101000111 1010001101 1111010101 0101000111 1111110001 0111010111 1101011111 1101111101 1101110101 0101010111
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1347
- Average number of words per stanza: 251
- Amount of lines: 32
- Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
- 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; you, of, your are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word as is repeated.
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