This is an analysis of the poem Monody On The Death Of The Right Hon. R. B. Sheridan that begins with:
When the last sunshine of expiring day
In summer's twilight weeps itself away,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbXcddeeffgghhii XcccbbddjjkkiilllXkkkkXikkkk ddfXmmffffcc ffiiggccddaaiinnccaocchhjjjXlliiiiXf iippffkkaohbjjqqrrjjiiii
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 18,28,12,36,24,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 1011100101 0101110101 11110100010 11011101010 00110101110 1101110101 0101010111 0111011101 1111111111 0101111111 0101110101 01001000111 11110101001 1011010101 1011001111 0110000101 0101011101 1011110011 101010011010 1101010101 1101001111 1101011101 01010001010 11010100110 0111000111 1011010101 0101010100 0101010100 1011111101 00100100101 10010111001 0101011111 1111000101 110010011001 1101110101 0101011010 0011000101 0101000101 0101010101 0101110111 1011010100 01010000101 01010000101 0101010101 1101010111 110110010111 1111111111 0101000101 0101010101 1111010100 0101010111 10110101101 1101000101 0101010001 1011011111 1001001001 0100010101 1101000101 1110010101 0101010101 11011101001 1001011111 1101110111 1100111011 1001110101 0111000111 01010100001 1101010001 0101001101 1100010111 0101010101 01001110101 0101010001 1101010001 11001110101 1001010101 0101010101 1101000100 1101010101 1100110101 0011010101 11010100101 0101001101 1101110001 0101100101 0101010100 0110011101 11001101001 10110101010 110101010010 1001010101 1101011101 1010010010111 1111010011 1101101101 1110011100 1001010101 0101010111 0101011111 0101000101 1100111101 11010010011 0101000101 1101010100 1101010101 1111010110 1101110100 1111010101 11001110101 01011100011 110011011 11001000111 0101111111 0101010100 1111010101 1101011101 1011011111 1101010100
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1027
- Average number of words per stanza: 184
- Amount of lines: 118
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (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; but, of, to, and, his are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words a, the, to are repeated.
The author used the same word but at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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