This is an analysis of the poem An Elegy Upon The L. Bishop Of London John King that begins with:
Sad Relick of a blessed Soul! whose trust
We sealed up in this religious dust. ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaaabbccXXXXddeeaaffddaaXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 26,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 110001111 111000101 1111110001 1011000101 1001010111 1101111111 11110001101 110111010 1110011101 1101001100 11110101110 01010101010 1111011011 1101001111 11100010101 1111001110 1110110101 1110110111 1101101101 0101000101 1001010011 1101110101 1111011101 1110010100 1111110111 0101010101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1138
- Average number of words per stanza: 199
- Amount of lines: 26
- 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; thy, and are repeated.
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