This is an analysis of the poem Elegy that begins with:
“So the Ol’ Man’s gone,” said Bill - “ol’ Cap’n Warren
I signed with onst in the clipper ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abc ac bXbX bdbd ecec
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,2,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10111111110 11010010 101 1110110110110 111001011111 11111101110 1110101101011 111111111010 110110110101 1110110110110 111111101101 11111010111100 11101100110101 11011111110 1101010100111 0111111110010 10011111111011
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 167
- Average number of words per stanza: 36
- Amount of lines: 17
- Average number of symbols per line: 48 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 11
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; ard, ol are repeated.
The author used the same word e at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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