This is an analysis of the poem Upon The Death Of My Ever Desired Friend Doctor Donne Dean Of Pauls that begins with:

To have liv'd eminent in a degreee
Beyond our lofty'st flights, that is like thee; ... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: XabbcXdXeeffXXggffeeddhhffcciijjhXhhffffaaffeekkaalleeeeff
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 58,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: heroic couplets
  • Metre: 011100001 0111011011 1111110011 1111011101 110111101 110101100 1111010101 1100010001 111101010 1101110111 0101011101 1011010100 10001010110 0101101111 1011011100 0111011101 1101010111 1101010101 11110101101 0111110011 1101110001 1101111100 1101011001 0101011101 1101110110 11010101110 110111101 0111110100 1101011101 11010100001 1111110011 0101011101 1011110111 1101011100 111011001 1110011111 10110100101 0101001101 1101010111 1111110101 1100010100 1111110111 1111010111 11111111001 1110000101 1101011111 1011101111 0101110101 1011111101 1010011101 0111101111 1101110111 1110001111 1111110111 1110111101 1000110100 1100111101 0101010101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 2491
  • Average number of words per stanza: 451
  • Amount of lines: 58
  • 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, of are repeated.

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