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

Nature's lay idiot, I taught thee to love,
And in that sophistry, Oh, thou dost prove... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabbccdXeeddffggbbhhffhiffiiii
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 30,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: heroic couplets
  • Metre: 10110011101 1011001111 1101111101 0101000111 11110100001 0111010101 11111010100 100011101000 1111110101 0101110000101 1111010100 0101010011000 0101111100 010010101101 1111110101 0101111111 11110101111 1100111101 0101011100 1111110100 10011010101 1111000111 111101001000 01100010101 1101011100 1101011101 1111011101 1101011101 1111011011 11111010101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1315
  • Average number of words per stanza: 233
  • Amount of lines: 30
  • 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; to, thy, and, thee are repeated.

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