This is an analysis of the poem A Funeral Elegy On The Death Of The Lady Penelope Clifton that begins with:
Since thou art dead, Clifton, the world may see
A certain end of flesh and blood in thee;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaaabbccaaddeeXfXgaaffahiieejjeekkXXeeiiahkkiiaaaaeeccddeeggddee
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 64,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1111100111 0101011101 1101111101 1101110101 1111010111 0101010101 0011111011 0111111101 1101110101 1111111011 1111011111 1101110101 1111011111 1111000001 0101111101 01110001111 1111011110 1101010001 1111010001 11000100111 1111100100 0111010111 1101010101 1101011100 1111110111 01001010101 11110111101 0111001100 0111000111 1101110001 1101110001 01110010101 1100011111 1110010101 11110111010 0100111111 1111111101 1111010011 11110001101 01100100101 1111110101 1111110100 1101011101 1011010101 1111011101 0100010101 1111000101 1101100101 1101011111 0111110111 1101001111 1011010001 1100010101 1101101101 1101111111 1111010111 1011111101 0111010001 11110100101 1101111111 0100101101 1011011101 1111011111 1101001111
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 2775
- Average number of words per stanza: 537
- Amount of lines: 64
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- 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; thou, and, as, her are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, and are repeated.
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