This is an analysis of the poem Funeral Music that begins with:
William de la Pole, Duke of Suffolk: beheaded 1450
John Tiptoft, Earl of Worcester: beheaded 1470 ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXX X abcdddXXXebfff X bghidebdbfdgij X kXffbflddmlcif X gfcamdcbgfcbhi X fgeXgXfggilfgX X inlndfgfXidcka X dkiXbegdfkhXid XXjkacffegjnabfg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,1,14,1,14,1,14,1,14,1,14,1,14,1,14,16,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1001110100101 11010100101 100101100101 1 10000001001 10100111010 01100100100 0110001101 01001000101 110001010001 1101010011 1010101110 10011010101 10011010010 100110011 1001101100 1010001010 101011101 1 1111111001 111010011101 0101001110 010111001 1101011101 11010010010 111111011 1001010101 0101111011 111000010010 100001110 1011011011 10110010101 10101001010 1 1101111101 1111010011 1101001101 1001100010 1010101011 0101101100 0101100101 111101001 101010011 1011011101 1001011000 1011011110 0110011001 1011011010 1 11011011001 0111011011 1001110100 1010011101 1111011001 01000001011 1111001100 111100110 01011010101 01010110101 11100100100 11110110010 010110101010 00100101010 1 1010111110 111001010 1101010110 101101101 1101110100 1011101011 10000110001 0110110111 1010110001 10101010101 110001110 1101001011 0100101010 1000011111 1 11011110110 0110100100 1001101011 0101010110 1110111101 10111010100 110010001 011111100 00111001000 0011001101 1111101011 101111010100 0010110101 0100100111 1 1010010001 011110111 1101011101 0101010101 011011111 10101110010 10101111110 1110101011 001111111 110110011 1100110110 1011010101 1010011001 1001010001 1 1111111101 01001010111 01011111111 101010100 10001011110 0101010011 11010100010 11100000001 1001111101 0001110101 0101001111 1111011100 1101100101 1000111110
- Amount of stanzas: 17
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 290
- Average number of words per stanza: 48
- Amount of lines: 130
- Average number of symbols per line: 37 (medium-length strings)
- 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; beheaded, we, blindly, i, and, as are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word for is repeated.
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