This is an analysis of the poem An Elegy Upon The Most Victorious King Of Sweden Gustavus Adolphus that begins with:

Like a cold fatal sweat which ushers death
My thoughts hang on me, & my lab'ring breath ... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabbccddeeffgghhfXXhffbbiiggiibbXbhhhhhXccffjjXjkkbbggbbaaccgghhjjccXbcchhhhggbXXlaajjddXdggXgflggmmXlggnncchhccccccoopphhffggqqbbXX XXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 132,3,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 1011011101 111111101 110111101 11101010001 0101011001 1111110001 1101011001 1111110001 1101011101 11010010101 0011010111 0111010100 1001101101 11001001101 1001110101 1111011101 1001011101 1111010101 1111010010 1101011101 1101110011 0111010001 0101111111 1101010111 1111011101 1111111101 1011010101 0011010101 1001101101 1101011101 1111110100 1011110100 0111111010 0111001101 11111111110 11111101010 0110011111 1101011101 1111010011 1001010100 1011011101 1111010111 0111110111 1101000101 1001011101 10111101001 1111011110 0111011111 0111110001 0111110011 0110011101 110111100 1111110111 1011010101 0111010111 111111001 1101010111 111111001 1101001101 1110110101 1001010101 0111110111 1111110101 1101110101 1111011111 1101100101 1101011111 1001111111 0111011100 0101011101 1011111101 111100010 1101011101 1000010101 1101011011 1111001100 1011110101 0111010011 1111010101 0111010111 100111101 1011100100 1111011111 1111010101 110111011 1111110101 1101010001 111101001 101100101 1011101101 1010111011 1011110001 11010101010 1101011011 1101011101 0111011100 0111010101 1101001111 101110101 11001010101 1111110001 1011001101 111111111 1001011001 0101011111 01010101001 1101110101 1101010101 1111001101 1111110101 1101011101 010001010 1111111101 1111010101 1111011100 110011010 11011001001 1001010001 1111010011 0101110111 1101011101 110100101 0101110101 1001001001 11010101101 1011011101 100111001 1001011101 1111010111 1001001101 1111000001 11001111001 111010010 101010111001 10111
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 2945
  • Average number of words per stanza: 525
  • Amount of lines: 135
  • 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; my, our, and, thy, not, your, in are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words to, thou are repeated.

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