This is an analysis of the poem An Elegy Upon My Best Friend L. K. C. that begins with:
Should we our Sorrows in this Method range,
Oft as Misfortune doth their Subjects change, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccccddeeffggbbcXhhiiccdXhhhhhhXXffXXhhbbdcjXjXccddhhddkk
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 60,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1111000101 1101011011 1001010101 1101110100 1100111011 11110111001 1101001101 1101010011 0111110101 0101110100 1101110101 1101111101 11010011101 1101011111 1111011101 1101000101 1110100111 0101010111 11001110101 1111010100 11101010101 11011100101 1011001111 1101010111 1111110101 0111111100 110111110 0101000110 110011011 0111011101 11010100111 1011111111 1101100101 1101010101 110011111 0111110110 1101011101 1110110101 011011011 1100111000 1111111011 11010010001 11100110101 11000100101 1111011101 11011001011 1110110100 111101010 1100011101 0100110100 01100010111 1101001101 1011001101 1100010111 1111011001 1101010100 1011010101 1101001101 1111000101 0100010101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 2594
- Average number of words per stanza: 450
- Amount of lines: 60
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (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; my is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word how is repeated.
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