This is an analysis of the poem When The Duke Of Clarence Died that begins with:
Let us sing in tear-choked numbers how the Duke of Clarence went,
Just to make a royal sorrow rather more pre-eminent.... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbcc ddaacc aaXXcc eeaa ffcccc ggccccXcc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,4,6,9,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 111011101010101 101010101011100 1011111001010101 101010111010001 1110101001010111 111011101010101 001010100010111 001110101011101 111011101010101 111001101010101 101010101010101 101010101010101 101011101110111 101000101010101 10011101010100001 111010101010101 101011100010011 101011101010101 101010100010101 101000101011101 001010100010111 101010101010001 111000101110001 111111101010101 101010110010101 101111001010101 101010101010101 001010101010101 0101010101010101 1010010101011101 111111111010011 111011101010101 101010101110101 101110101010101 1001110101110101 111010101010101
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 320
- Average number of words per stanza: 61
- Amount of lines: 36
- Average number of symbols per line: 61 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 12
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, s, of, in, he are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
The poet repeated the same word died at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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