This is an analysis of the poem To The Memory Of My Beloved Author, Mr. William Shakespeare that begins with:
To draw no envy, Shakespeare, on thy name,
Am I thus ample to thy book and fame;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccddeeccffgghhiiaajjcccckkllXeggkkaammaaaaccddcciXddiiddaakkeecceeXfccffhhdd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 80,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 0111011111 1111001111 1101110001 1101111111 1111110111 0101111011 1101001111 1101111101 1101011101 01110110111 1101010101 1101010101 1111100111 1101011101 1111010101 01111000101 1110011001 00101010011 1111101111 1011011101 0101001101 1101000101 1101111111 1111011101 11111111010 110111000010 1011110000 1101110011 11111111011 11011100101 1111110111 0101011111 1111110100 1000110001 10010101101 0101011101 1101111101 1101100100 01110011101 1111001101 1011011101 0111010101 1110111111 1101010011 1101011101 1111010001 1001110001 11001010001 10110111011 1110101101 0101110100 1101010111 1101010101 1101010100 1111110111 1101110101 1101010100 0111010111 1101010111 1111110101 0101010101 1010011101 1101011101 1001011111 1111110101 1001010101 0111110101 00111111 0101110101 1101010100 1101010100 0110110101 1111010101 1101010111 1111100101 0111010101 1111010101 11001110101 1111011111 1011111101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 3465
- Average number of words per stanza: 653
- Amount of lines: 80
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (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; thy, to, and, i, or, all, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, in are repeated.
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