This is an analysis of the poem Hypotheses Hypochondriacae that begins with:

And should she die, her grave should be
Upon the bare top of a sunny hill,... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcdXebdecfccaddgXdXdddhijgfcakccejbcjkdjgecXcbejgbdhffgbagkjcdbdicdXaXjccadXdk X
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 79,1,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 11110110 0101100101 0101100111 0101011111 0111011000 1101111101 01010101001 1111011101 0111011101 01010101001 11010111010 0111010101 0111010111 1101011101 100011 11111101 1101111111 1101110111 11010111110 01110111110 1011110101 1111010111 01111101001 1101110001 1101010101 01010010011 1101111111 1101010100 01001110101 1101011111 1011010111 1011011101 1101110101 1001011111 1110010100 1101011101 0101110101 1101011101 1111110111 1101111101 1111010111 1111001111 0101110111 1101010111111 1101010101 1111111101 1101010111 0101010101 1101010101 11110111011 1100011100 1100111011 01111101110 0101100100100 1111010100 1100010001 1111100100 11010010101 11110101110 0111101011 1111110111 1010010101 10110101110 10010101010 1101111100011 1001010011 0101000111 0101011101 1111001101110 1101011111 011101000 0101010100 1111011111 1111111111 1111011101 1010111111 1111010111 1101011100 1110001101 101
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1720
  • Average number of words per stanza: 314
  • Amount of lines: 81
  • 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; of, should, her, and, my, i are repeated.

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

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  • summary of Hypotheses Hypochondriacae;
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