This is an analysis of the poem Of The Death Of Sir T.W. The Elder that begins with:

Wyatt resteth here, that quick could never rest;
Whose heavenly gifts increased by disdain,... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: abab cbcb dede caca fXfc ghgh aeaX aiaiXgdgdaa
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,11,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 10101111101 1100101101 1101010001 1101110101 0111010001 1101101101 11010111101 1101010101 0101111101 1010010001 011111011 0101111101 0111110101 1110010001 0101100011 1101110111 0111010101 11001010010 1101010101 1101101101 1111010111 1001110101 1101010101 0101100101 0111110101 0101110101 0101011101 0101111010 0101111101 1001110111 111011101 0101110101 10010110101 1101110101 1001110101 111111011 1111010111 01010100101
  • Amount of stanzas: 9
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 185
  • Average number of words per stanza: 34
  • Amount of lines: 38
  • 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; to is repeated.

    The author used the same word a at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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