This is an analysis of the poem An Elegy On The Death Of Montgomery Tappen that begins with:

An elegy on the death of MONTGOMERY TAPPEN who dies at Poughkeepsie on the 20th of Nov. 1784 in the ninth year of his age.
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  • Rhyme scheme: X abab cccc dede cfcf gbgb
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 1100101001010111010101001010011001 01010000101 11011010101 1111011101 1101010001 0111000101 1101000101 0101010101 1101010001 01110010101 1101110111 1111011101 1101001101 11110101010 1101011111 1101010101 1101010101 01001010101 1101011101 0101010101 1100011101
  • Amount of stanzas: 6
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 167
  • Average number of words per stanza: 29
  • Amount of lines: 22
  • Average number of symbols per line: 45 (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, adieu are repeated.

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