This is an analysis of the poem Epitaph On A Disturber Of His Times that begins with:
We expected the violin's finger on the upturned nerve;
Its importunate cry, too laxly curved:...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcb XaXa Xdcd X
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,1,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 101001010101001 0100011101 1111110111101 1011010001 1010010111100 1101001 11100100100111 100101 10100101000111 011100101 111011101010010 1011010101 01011010
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 143
- Average number of words per stanza: 25
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 40 (medium-length strings)
- 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 is repeated.
The author used the same word we at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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