This is an analysis of the poem Lines Written On Hearing Of The Death Of Charles I. that begins with:
Great, good, and just! could I but rate
My griefs to thy too rigid fate,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbcccc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 10111111 11011101 11010101 10110101 1111110101 101011101 1111000101 1111010111
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 325
- Average number of words per stanza: 59
- Amount of lines: 8
- Average number of symbols per line: 40 (medium-length strings)
- 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; thy is repeated.
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