This is an analysis of the poem A Poet's Epitaph that begins with:
STOP mortal ! Here thy brother lies,
The Poet of the Poor ;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcdcdefefgbgbhbhb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 20,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11011101 010001 01010111 011101 01000111 010101 01010001 0101001 01011101 110111 110000101 010001 10110111 011101 11110111 010101 01010101 010111 11111101 110111
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 639
- Average number of words per stanza: 122
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, a are repeated.
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