This is an analysis of the poem Epitaph In A Church-Yard In Charleston, South Carolina that begins with:

GEORGE AUGUSTUS CLOUGH
A NATIVE OF LIVERPOOL,... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: a X X X X baabbaabcdcdcd
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,1,1,1,1,14,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: heroic couplets
  • Metre: 10101 0100101 11000100100 111 11 110100100101 1101000111 01001010101 1111010101 001011100111 01001010101 1101011101 0101010001 0001000111 0101011111 1101110101 1001010111 0101110101 1001110101
  • Amount of stanzas: 6
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 119
  • Average number of words per stanza: 20
  • Amount of lines: 20
  • Average number of symbols per line: 35 (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; with is repeated.

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