An Epitaph On His Most Honoured Friend Richard Earl Of Dorset by Henry King: poem analysis

This is an analysis of the poem An Epitaph On His Most Honoured Friend Richard Earl Of Dorset that begins with:

Let no profane ignoble foot tread neer
This hallow'd peece of earth, Dorset lies here. ... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabbbXccddeebbXXddeXXaXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 24,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: heroic couplets
  • Metre: 1101010111 0101011011 01110001010 11011101010 110101111 0101010110 0101110101 1101011001 1011110101 1100111001 1101110111 1101010101 1101110101 1101010101 1101110101 1011010100 1101010100 1101010101 1101010101 11011111110 1101001110 0101111101 1111111001 1101010100
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1032
  • Average number of words per stanza: 191
  • Amount of lines: 24
  • 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; of, his, and are repeated.

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