This is an analysis of the poem An Elegy On The Lady Markham that begins with:

As unthrifts groan in straw for their pawn'd beds,
As women weep for their lost maidenheads,... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXabccbbddeeffbbgggggghhbbiijjbbddggjjaacchhbbggkkXejjlleemmjjhhkkcX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 68,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 1101011111 1101111100 1110111100 1101011111 1101111011 1111100111 1101011101 1111110101 0101110101 0001111101 1111001101 0111010101 1111110111 1111110111 1001111101 0111010101 110101111001 0111010111 1001010101 0101010001 1101011111 1101010001 1101011111 1101010001 1101110101 1011101111 1111011101 0111001101 0101010101 0111011101 0101110111 11001010101 1011010011 0101010111 0101010101 0101111101 11110010111 10110101001 1011011100 1101110100 1111010111 11011111001 1100111111 1111101011 1101111111 1111110101 1111011101 1101010111 1111011101 1101001101 0111011110 0101001101 1011111101 0101010101 01010100010 11101111110 1101111101 0111011001 1001010111 1001010101 1111010111 0110011110 0101100100101 1001011101 1101011111 0101010101 1011111101 1101100101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 2886
  • Average number of words per stanza: 569
  • Amount of lines: 68
  • 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; for, i, her, can, and, their, to, have are repeated.

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

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines her is repeated).

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