This is an analysis of the poem Epilogue To Agamemnon that begins with:
Our bard, to modern epilogue a foe,
Thinks such mean mirth but deadens generous woe; ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccddeeeeddffggddhhee
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 24,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 1101010101 11111101001 0101010101 1101010101 1101010101 11001010101 1101110101 1011010111 1111010101 1111001101 1111110101 1101010011 10010011111 1001110001 0101010000 11010111001 1100110101 1101110101 1101010111 0101110101 0101000101 1101010101 1101111101 1011010101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1092
- Average number of words per stanza: 192
- Amount of lines: 24
- 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; your, he, be, to, no are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word no is repeated.
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