This is an analysis of the poem On The Memory Of Mr. Edward King, Drown'D In The Irish Seas that begins with:
I like not tears in tune, nor do I prize
His artificial grief that scans his eyes;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabcddbXeeXXaabcffgghhiiddjjbckkkkbc bcaallmmkkggXXaXaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 36,18,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1111011111 0101011101 1111011111 0100010100 1111011101 1011001111 0100111111 1101011000 0101111101 0101011101 01111111011 01010101100 1101110111 0111110111 1001011101 1001000100 1101010101 011100010001 1100111101 0111011100 1101010011 0111010111 1111001101 0111010001 1101111101 01110011011 0101001001 1101010101 0101000101 1100010100 11001001001 1111010101 1101111111 0111010111 1111010101 1011110100 1111110101 11010000100 1101110101 0101110101 1101011011 1001000111 11110110110 11001101010 1101111110 1100110101 1001111011 0101010011 0100111111 0101110101 1111010011 11011111100 1111110101 1101010100
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1181
- Average number of words per stanza: 206
- Amount of lines: 54
- 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.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, thy, our are repeated.
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