This is an analysis of the poem The Exequy that begins with:
1 Accept, thou shrine of my dead saint,
2 Instead of dirges, this complaint;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabccaaddcceeaabeee bbaaaaeeffggXfXedd hXffffii aacXhhXfXgeeaa iijjaaXXddkcaaaaaa ii iXddaahhjjcciiccaajj eeiiiikcllhhcc fXllaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 19,18,8,14,18,2,20,14,6,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101110111 101010001 111110111 101111111 111000111 111110101 111100101 111111101 101101011 111111111 111011101 110110101 111110011 111110111 111001101 101110100 111011100 1110101010 101010010 111001111 110110100 111010111 101010001 111111101 101111111 111010101 111111100 1111101111 111110101 111110101 110011101 111111100 110110111 111111111 111110000 111010111 111110101 111011101 101011111 100010111 111111111 111111101 111110001 111011101 111010101 111010101 111000101 111011011 101111010 101011111 111010101 110110110 101000111 1110111010 111110101 101111111 111010101 101110111 111101101 111110110 111111101 101001111 101011111 111111100 100110111 100111101 111111111 10100111 111001111 111000100 1101101011 111111101 111010111 111110111 111110001 111110111 111111100 111011101 111011101 111110111 11000100 111011111 111111101 111111101 110110011 101111101 111110011 111111011 101101101 111110101 111010101 111010101 1010111101 110100101 11101001011 111110101 111111011 101111111 111110101 110011101 111110101 111110101 111011101 111011111 111011101 111010100 101100001 101111011 101100001 111111011 111011111 1111001100 111111111 101001111 111110000 101110101 101111001 101001101 111111101
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 528
- Average number of words per stanza: 101
- Amount of lines: 127
- Average number of symbols per line: 37 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; thee, and, i, thy, my are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines on is repeated).
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- summary of The Exequy;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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