This is an analysis of the poem An Epistle From Alexander To Hephaestion In His Sickness that begins with:
WITH such a Pulse, with such disorder'd Veins,
Such lab'ring Breath, as thy Disease constrains; ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccddeeffggbbffddddhhccddbbhhaahhddaaaabbb ddffhhffggiiccaaacddaa aaa ggaahhhhhjjhhkkhhXdddfffgg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 45,22,3,26,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 0101010101 1101110101 0101110101 11100111101 0010010101 0111111101 1111111101 1111010011 1101010111 110101101101 1110011101 1101111111 1011010101 1101010101 11011010101 0101100101 0111101101 11010001111 1100000101 10010110101 1100010101 11110100001 1111111001 1110010101 1011001101 1101011001 1111110101 0101010011 1100010101 0101001101 011100111 1101011001 1101010101 1111011101 1101011101 110101001101 1100110101 1101011101 11010100101 1011010101 1101011101 1111010111 0110010101 0100010101 1111010101 1101010101 1001011111 0101110101 0111111111 01101001011 1101101101 0100011101 1101101101 1101110111 1110110101 1100011101 1011010101 1101110001 1001010101 1001010111 1101110001 1111111101 0101000101 101010101 1101111101 0101100101 1111011111 1111011101 0111111101 110101010101 1111010101 1101110101 1101010101 1011110001 1101111101 1111101101 1110111101 11101010101 101111110101 11110101001 1101010101 1111110101 1100110101 1101000101 0101010111 1101010101 1101010001 11011100101 1110111101 0111011111001 1111101110 1100110101 0101110111 0011011101 10010011001
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 854
- Average number of words per stanza: 150
- Amount of lines: 97
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (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; with, such, thy, to, their, her, and, no are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words to, when, now are repeated.
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