This is an analysis of the poem On The Death Of E. Waller, Esq. that begins with:
How, to thy Sacred Memory, shall I bring
(Worthy thy Fame) a grateful Offering? ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccddcceffgghhaaaggiiiXccee ffgggjjkkccXXiiiiijllgmgmhhXckknn
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 30,33,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 10110100111 1011010100 1111010101 1111111001 110011100101 0101110101 1111110101 1011001101 1111011101 11101100101 11 1101010101 1101010001 01110100110 1101010101 0101110101 1011011011 01010010101 0101010111 1111010001 11110101001 1101110111 1101110101 0101111101 1101111101 1101110101 0111011101 1111010001 10100111001 1101011101 11111100111 1011010001 100100101001 0101011111 111101101 1001011101 1101010101 1101111101 1011010111 1101110101 1101111111 1011010110 11001011001 11110010101 1111110101 1101011101 1001010111 1111010111 1111111101 11010101110 010101010010 1011000111 0101110100 11010010101 1100110100 01101011101 0100010100 1101000101 1011011101 1101010101 0101011101 11000110011 1010011101
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1367
- Average number of words per stanza: 232
- Amount of lines: 63
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- 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; and, to, thy are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.
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