This is an analysis of the poem An Elegy Upon The Death Of Mr. Edward Holt that begins with:

VVhether thy Fathers, or diseases rage,
More mortal prov'd to thy unhappy age, ... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabbccbXcXddXXccccbbeXXXbbeeffcX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 32,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: heroic couplets
  • Metre: 1011010101 1101010101 1101110101 0111110101 1101111011 110101111 11101001101 0111001100 1111011111 1111011111 1011010101 110111101 0110010101 1011011000 1001011101 1001110101 1101100100 1101010101 001111101 0101110100 1101010101 1111111001 1011010111 1101110101 1011010001 1101011001 1011011111 1110110111 1110110101 110101111 1001110101 0101010100
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1377
  • Average number of words per stanza: 244
  • Amount of lines: 32
  • 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; thy is repeated.

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