This is an analysis of the poem Elegy Iii: Change that begins with:

Although thy hand and faith, and good works too,
Have seal'd thy love which nothing should undo,... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aaXbccbbbbddccbbeeaafbaabbccfXXXggff
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 36,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: limerick
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 1111111011 1111110101 1111111000 0111111111 1011011101 101010100001 0111011111 01010101111 1101111110 1011111111 1011111111 1101110111 0101110101 10101000111 111101110010 10010101001 11011110111 1101011111 1100000111 0101011011 1101100100 1111111011 101110111 0111111111 11111101011 0101111111 1111111010 01110111001 0101100100 0111001100 1011001111 1001111100 1111111100 1011101111 11110100100 0101110100
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1569
  • Average number of words per stanza: 305
  • Amount of lines: 36
  • 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; thy, to, love, thou, in are repeated.

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

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