This is an analysis of the poem The Grammarians Funeral that begins with:
Eight Parts of Speech this Day wear Mourning Gowns
Declin'd Verbs, Pronouns, Participles, Nouns.... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaaabbccddaabbeeffggaacchhccffbXiijjkkhhccggllggccbb ggkkggmmbbaakXccjj Xggbbgg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 52,18,7,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 1101011101 0111010101 1101101010 01011101110 01000101010 1101001010 010010011 1111011001 0100010101 1111111101 01010101110 11001010010 0110000101 1101010101 1001111101 1101001111 0101100101 1111001101 1101010011 0101011111 110110011010 10010100010 1001111101 1011010101 1101111101 1111011100 10111010011 1111110111 1101001101 1001011101 1011000101 1101111110 01011111110 11100001010 0101001111 1111010101 1011011001 1101110001 10000111110 11111010010 1011010111 1101011011 1011011101 11111101001 1001011111 1011110101 111000111 1101010101 1011010101 1010001101 1001011111 1111110001 1111110101 1101010101 1001010101 11001011100 1111010101 1011010101 01100001110 11010111010 100101101010 11000101010 1101011101 0100111011 10010110001 0111100100 1101100101 1101010101 11010101 1111011101 1111110101 1111110001 100101010 1101110101 1101101101 1001010111
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1079
- Average number of words per stanza: 196
- Amount of lines: 78
- Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
- 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; they, to, he are repeated.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase there connects the lines.
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