This is an analysis of the poem Elegy Xi: The Bracelet that begins with:
Upon the Loss of His Mistress’s Chain, for Which He Made Satisfaction
NOT that in colour it was like thy hair,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: a bbccdeccccaaffggbbaaggcchheXiiXhjjhhccffeXkkfXaakkfXaallccXlhhaaccXdaakkffaaXgaaeeiiaaXheecckkggeeaaiiedccmmccaacc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,114,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 01010010111111010 1101001111 1100111111 1111010111 1101101111 1111010100 1111011110 11111101111 1101110101 1111010111 1100110001 1111011111 001101010 10110010001 1101101101 01110011100 0101111111 1111001101 1011111101 1101100101 1101010111 1111111111 1011111101 011101111 11011101001 1110011101 1111111100 1100111100 1111011100 1011011100 1101110111 110011100100 1111011011 1100011001 1101010001 0111001101 1011110001 1101101111 111111111001 1011011101 1011010101 1011111011 1101011010 1001111101 0101001100 10110100111 11001100010 11110101010 1111001101 1111010101 1111111111 1111110001 1011011100 0100111001 1111111111 10101111010 11011111110 11010111001 1101010011 1111011100 10010111110 11010100100 10111100101 1111110101 1101110100 1011011101 1111011010 0101111000 0110010100 1101011101 1001110001 10011010101 1011011101 1111011101 0100111111 1111110111 1111011101 1011011100 11010110100 1111011001 1011010101 0100010111 10010110101 0111110101 0101010011 1011100111 1111110101 1111010100 1111111101 1111001101 1111010011 1111010111 1111110101 110010010011 1111010111 1101001101 1110110101 1001011001 11011100111 1011110101 1011011111 1101110101 1100011101 11010111101 10010110100 1101011101 1101110101 1101011101 010100110 0111111110 11101010101 1101011101 1001000101 1000111001 0111011111
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 2536
- Average number of words per stanza: 455
- Amount of lines: 115
- 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; that, i, to, not, they, so, my, and, you, your, all, thee are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words to, much, good are repeated.
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