This is an analysis of the poem On The Death Of Mr Aikman that begins with:
Oh, could I draw, my friend, thy genuine mind,
Just as the living forms by thee designed;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccdXeeffggffhhiijjjjbbhhkkhhXdhhffeell
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 42,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 11111111001 1101011101 0101011101 1101010111 0101010101 01011100101 111110101 1011110100 1111110101 1111000101 1001010101 010010100101 1001100101 11010100101 110010101001 0101111101 1001011101 10110100101 1101100101 10110100101 11001110111 0100010101 1101111101 0101010101 11110100010 111111010110 0111010101 1001000101 1001110101 0011110101 10010011101 1101000101 11010101110 11011001001 1111011101 1101010001 1101111101 0111010101 0101110101 111110100111 11001010101 1101110101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1856
- Average number of words per stanza: 332
- Amount of lines: 42
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (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.
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