This is an analysis of the poem Elegy On The Death Of A Young Man that begins with:
Mournful groans, as when a tempest lowers,
Echo from the dreary house of woe;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcacadede fgfgagagghgh fXgXhggXdgXd ijijkekeffff glglheXeXhch jfjfememgXgX cgXgaaaagfgf aninlhlXfofoXheheahahfhfh
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,12,12,12,12,12,12,25,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1011101010 100010101 1110101010 101011101 101101101 1000011001 101010111 001100111 1010100010 101011111 1110101110 111010101 111111111 101010001 1111101001 1110110101 101011101 111011001 101010101 101010101 0010101001 111011101 101011101 001111101 100010111 101010110 101011111 111011000 101001101 011010101 101010101 1010101110 1010101010 1110110001 001111010 1010001010 111101101 101000101 1010101001 111110101 101110111 111110111 10010010101 1011010111 101011101 1011011101 1101110101 111110101 111110001 011010101 101010101 101011101 1011101101 101010101 100101010 1001010101 101010111 101010101 100010111 111010101 1011011101 101010101 1110101001 101010101 111011101 001010100 011011101 001110100 001010101 0010101010 1000100101 111111000 1111101001 111010101 111001101 111010111 101010101 1001110101 111110101 111011101 101100101 111110101 001010101 101011111 101110101 1010110101 1010010101 1111001111 011110101 001111100 1110111001 111110100 111010101 111010111 1010010001 001010101 111010111 001010101 111011101 111010101 101110101 101110111 10101011101 1010100101 111010101 0010010101 101010101 101011101
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 491
- Average number of words per stanza: 86
- Amount of lines: 108
- Average number of symbols per line: 40 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
There are many exclamation marks in the poem. The speaker is excited. He or she has strong feelings on the subject that is described in the poem.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; ye, and, to, this, in, not, that, true, holy, its are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, who, o'er, to, sleep, not, is, truth are repeated.
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