This is an analysis of the poem The Universal Epitaph that begins with:
No flattering praises daub my stone,
My frailties and my faults to hide;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcdcd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110010111 11011101 11110111 11010111 11011111 11110101 11110011 10010111
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 269
- Average number of words per stanza: 56
- Amount of lines: 8
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (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; my is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word my is repeated.
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- summary of The Universal Epitaph;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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