This is an analysis of the poem On The Death Of The Honourable Mr. James Thynne that begins with:

Farewell, lov'd Youth! since 'twas the Will of Heaven
So soon to take, what had so late been giv'n; ... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXbbaaccddeeffeXeeeaacghhggiiXfccjjiiaaiijjiicckkjjffggllcg XgmmmiiicXhheennffbbaaaaggXgooaahhiiggaaiiggddgg
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 59,48,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 11111100010 1101111101 1111010001 1001111101 1101010101 01010101001 1001010111 11010101001 1101111101 1010010101 01010101111 1101101101 0111001001 1111011101 01100110101 11010101110 1111010001 0100010111 0101111101 11010100101 0011010101 1111001111 100111001 1100011101 1001010011 1001010101 1101110101 1100111101 0111010101 1100100110 1101010001 11001011101 1101010101 10010011001 0101111111 1101011101 1100110101 1111011111 1111010101 1011011101 0101010001 1111010001 1101100101 0111110101 1101110000 1101111111 1101010101 1111010111 1101110101 1111000101 1101010011 1011010101 1111011001 1011110011 1011001011 1111110101 1111010101 10111110101 11001110101 1111010101 1101010101 0111010101 1101110101 1111010101 1101011111 1101101111 110101111101 1111011101 110100010101 0111010101 0100010101 0101010011 0111011111 1101011101 0101000101 0101100111 1101110001 1011110111 1011110101 1001010101 1101010101 0101011101 1101110101 1111110101 1111100111 11010111001 1101010101 0101110101 1111000101 1001011101 10010100101 1001100101 1001110101 1001010011 0101010001 1101010101 1101010101001 0101010101 11001110101 1001010101 11001110101 1101011101 1001110111 1010011101 1101110101 1101110101 1111110101
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 2410
  • Average number of words per stanza: 413
  • Amount of lines: 107
  • Average number of symbols per line: 44 (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; to, in are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word nor is repeated.

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