This is an analysis of the poem An Elegy Upon James Therburn, In Chatto that begins with:
Now, Chatto, you're a dreary place,
Pale sorrow broods on ilka face;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaaab bbbcbc dddede XXfX X fffgfg eXeXXb gegcXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,6,6,4,1,6,6,6,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11010101 11011101 101101 11111101 0111 10010001 110111101 11011111 111101 110110110 11011 11011001 1111111 10111101 1101 11110111 0101 11110111 111101001 111101001 0001 1 010010111 101011111 11100101 011 10110111 1110 11111111 01000101 11010111 1110 1111011 1111 10110111 10111111 11110111 10 11 01
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 156
- Average number of words per stanza: 27
- Amount of lines: 40
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; now is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words he, but, and are repeated.
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