This is an analysis of the poem On My Aunt Mrs. A. K. that begins with:
Drown'd under London-bridge, in the Queens Bardge, Anno 1641
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Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: X aabbccddeeeXXffXeedd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,20,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 1101010011101 0100010011 011010101 010100100101 0110111101 0111010111 1101001111 1111011101 10100011010 0101110001 11110010101 0101010101 1101011101 1101110001 0101110011 1111010101 1101100011 0101110011 1101010111 0101111001
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 301
- Average number of words per stanza: 56
- Amount of lines: 21
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (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; and is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, and are repeated.
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