This is an analysis of the poem Elegy Xiii: His Parting From Her that begins with:

SINCE she must go, and I must mourn, come night,
Environ me with darkness, whilst I write ; ... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabbaaccddaaaaddeeaadfggddhhiiaaeejjbbiijjffddXjiijjaaffkkccggkkhhjjggiibbccllcmddaaccddkkffggkkaammggkk
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 104,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: heroic couplets
  • Metre: 1111111111 1001010111 1111101101 1101011101 01010101010 11110111100 11001110111 0111111111 11101000111 1011110111 1001011101 01010011101 11110110101 1011011111 00011101111 1101111101 11011011101 1111000111 11110111001 1101011101 11010101001 1100010100 1111010101 1111011101 1111011111 1101011101 1111110011 1111010001 1111011100 0111111101 111111101 1101010111 110101110001 101111110001 11011111110 00110101010 11011111111 1110001111 1101111101 0101111100 1111110111 11011101001 01011010100 1111110100 1110111111 1101010111 101010011010 010100100010 1001001101 1011011101 0111110101 11010111011 1111010011 1111011101 1101011010 11011101010 1111010011 1101111110 1111110111 1101011111 11011101001 1011011101 1101001111 1101110101 1101111101 1101110111 1111111111 1101110111 1101011101 1101111111 1111110111 1111110101 10110101001 1101001111 01110101011 1001011011 11111100001 1111100010 0101010001 1101110100 0101111011 1100110111 1101111111 0101101111 0111010111 1101001101 1111001101 0101011111 0110101111 1111111101 0110110100 110101100100 11111000111 1111110101 10001001111 1111011111 0111011111 1111111111 10111101010 110110110110 1111110111 1101011101 1111001111 1101011101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 4737
  • Average number of words per stanza: 863
  • Amount of lines: 104
  • Average number of symbols per line: 45 (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, it, my, their, and, our, thy, her, your are repeated.

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

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines it is repeated).

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