This is an analysis of the poem To The Praise Of The Dead And The Anatomy that begins with:

VVEll dy'de the World, that we might liue to see
This World of wit, in his Anatomee: ... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXXXXXbbaXccccXdeeffaabXdXaaaagebXXdXXaahhggXXcc
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 48,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 1101111101 010100100 1110011010 1011010110 11100111111 1111011110 1111010101 1011100101 10010011101 010111100 1101000111 1101111111 0101010111 1101011101 1111011101 1111011011 0101110101 0101010101 0111110111 1011010101 01010010111 1111011101 11111111001 0101001100 110111101 1111010111 1101010101 11110110101 1101110011 11111111 11110111010 1111111101 1111111101 1110110110 1111101101 1101110101 1111110101 0101011100 1101011101 0101010101 11110101101 1101110010 111110111 10011011101 11110111001 11110110001 10111001101 1111110111
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 2216
  • Average number of words per stanza: 404
  • Amount of lines: 48
  • 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; to, thy are repeated.

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