This is an analysis of the poem Elegies, Book One, 5 that begins with:
In summer’s heat and mid-time of the day
To rest my limbs upon a bed I lay,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccccccbbdXeeaa aaaaddff
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 18,8,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 0101111001 0111010111 1101010101 1111110001 1111110001 11101111110 110100010101 1111110001 1111000111 0111010101 0100110001001 1111001011 11011010111 110100101000 1101111101 0101110101 1101110111 1110010111 1111001111 1101000111 11010100111 1101110101 0101111101 11001010111 110110101111 1111110110
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 558
- Average number of words per stanza: 111
- Amount of lines: 26
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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