This is an analysis of the poem Epitaph: Being Part Of An Inscription For A Monument that begins with:
Farewell, my best-beloved; whose heavenly mind
Genius with virtue, strength with softness join'd;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccddbbccee
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 111101011001 1001010101 01010001111 0101001101 1101010101 1100100101 100100001101 01001010101 01110010101 1111010011 1111111101 11101001101 1101111111 11111101011
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 631
- Average number of words per stanza: 101
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- 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; with, and are repeated.
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