This is an analysis of the poem An Epitaph that begins with:
Enough; and leave the rest to Fame!
'Tis to commend her, but to name. ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbbb cXbbccddccbb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,12,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01110101 10010101 11110101 11010001 11010111 01010001 01110101 001111100 11110101 01010111 101111011 10110111 11001101 110111001 10111111 10110111 11111101 11010011
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 319
- Average number of words per stanza: 59
- Amount of lines: 18
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to, as are repeated.
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