This is an analysis of the poem On The Tombs In Westminster Abbey that begins with:
MORTALITY, behold and fear!
What a change of flesh is here! ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbbbcXddeedXbbcc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 18,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01000111 1010101 1110101 1010101 1111111 11110111 10110101 11110011 11110101 0010101 10101010 1011111 1010111 11101111 1110101 10010101 11010111 10011111
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 646
- Average number of words per stanza: 120
- Amount of lines: 18
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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