This is an analysis of the poem Epitah On The Politician Himself that begins with:

Here richly, with ridiculous display,
The Politician's corpse was laid away. ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aaXX b ccdd X aaee X cc X Xb
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,1,4,1,4,1,2,1,2,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: heroic couplets
  • Metre: 1100010001 0101011101 11000101110 1111110111 010101 0011000101 1101011110 1111010101 0111010111 10101010 0101011101 0101010101 1111011111 0111110111 11010 1001010101 1100010111 1000101 1011001001100 11110101110100
  • Amount of stanzas: 9
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 85
  • Average number of words per stanza: 15
  • Amount of lines: 23
  • Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i is repeated.

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