This is an analysis of the poem Epitaph On A Beloved Friend that begins with:
Oh, Friend! for ever loved, for ever dear!
What fruitless tears have bathed thy honour'd bier!... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccddeeddeeffgghhaacciihh
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 28,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1111011101 11011111001 1110001101 11110000101 1101010001 1101010101 1111010101 1101010001 1111011101 11001011101 0111010101 01111100101 1111010111 0111010101 1101110101 1101111101 10010111011 1001011101 11110010101 0101010101 11110101001 1101110101 1101111101 1101110101 1101010101 1001110101 0111010101 1101010101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1251
- Average number of words per stanza: 214
- Amount of lines: 28
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (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; his, could, thy are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words what, could, affliction's are repeated.
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