This is an analysis of the poem A Sonnet Upon The Pitiful Burning Of The Globe Playhouse In that begins with:

Now sit thee down, Melpomene,
Wrapp'd in a sea-coal robe,...

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  • Rhyme scheme: XabaccD ebebffD gdgXhhD ididbXD cXeXiXD jXjfiiD kfkfllD
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,7,7,7,7,7,7,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: ballad stanza
  • Metre: 1111100 100111 11010100 111111 11111111 11111101 11010010111001 11110101 1100110 01100101 1111010 010101001 11010101001 11010010111001 010100101 010111 10011001 111101 1111111 10110101 11010010111001 11011101 111101 11111111 111101 0100011111 11011101 11010010111001 01001111 1001010 01010001 01000110 101111010 011110010 11010010111001 0111101 1101010 11010101 1001111 10110101 11110111 11010010111001 1110010 1111010 1101010 0100110 01011001 01010101 11010010111001
  • Amount of stanzas: 7
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 262
  • Average number of words per stanza: 46
  • Amount of lines: 50
  • Average number of symbols per line: 36 (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; and is repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, in are repeated.

    The poet repeated the same word true at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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