This is an analysis of the poem An Elegy Upon Mrs. Kirk Unfortunately Drowned In Thames that begins with:

For all the Ship-wracks, and the liquid graves
Lost men have gain'd within the furrow'd waves, ... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabbaXccddeeeeddffgghhffddiibbccjjkkiieell
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 42,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: heroic couplets
  • Metre: 1101110101 1111010101 0111111111 1011010001 1101110101 01111110010 1111011101 0111110011 1111010011 1101010001 11011101001 0111001111 1101011101 1101000100 1111010101 110001111 1111011111 1001010001 0101111111 0111010001 0101011111 1011011111 10110100011 1101010101 1101110101 01001010111 1101011011 1101100101 1101011101 1101111101 0111010011 1101011101 111110111 0101010101 1111110011 110101001 1100110111 1100111101 1111110111 1100110100 1110111001 0101010101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1878
  • Average number of words per stanza: 333
  • Amount of lines: 42
  • 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.

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