This is an analysis of the poem Epitaph On Miss Stanley, In Holyrood Church, Southampton that begins with:

E. S.
Once a lively image of human nature,... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcdeeebffdfagXXefacfXgbcchXda hhffhffiijjffcckkkkiigg
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 30,23,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 11 10101001010 11110 1101100100000 001000010010 100111010 101010100 1100010 1100101100010 1101011010 11001 110010011001 1101011010010 0101010110001 010110001011 10010100111010 011001100 101001 1001001010010 1001010 10101010 1011101110100 0111100011001 110100100010 11001010100100 01000010101001 10100111001 01110100 1110001 0111111001001 1101010101 0101010101 1111110101 1101100101 1111010101 0101010101 1111010101 1111011101 10010011001 1101110101 0111000101 0111010101 11010100001 001001010111 1101110001 1111010101 1011111101 10011010101 1011101101 1001111001 1101011111 0111101101 0101110101
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1097
  • Average number of words per stanza: 196
  • Amount of lines: 53
  • 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; of, and, her, to are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word to is repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines stanley is repeated).

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