This is an analysis of the poem Eleonora : A Panegyrical that begins with:

Dedicated to the Memory of the Late Countess of Abingdon.
As when some great and gracious monarch dies,... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: a bbccddaaeeeffccddgghhXdcccchhiiiihhjjiibbcceeeeejjjaajjggiikkbbbddkkiigleeddddggXdaaffaaglmmddgliiiinccaabbcchhiibbglXdkkbbiioobbjjccddiibfgggdddhhaaabbbddhhddccggffXhddXdaahhiiggcccccddddiiddlgjjffeeggddiiaaiiiddXbggkkccccccdXglaappniqqccccccdddddddddj
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,377,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 100000100001100100 1111110111 11011101 0101010101 1101110101 1111010101 0101010011 11010100101 1011110101 1101010101 0101000101 1101010101 01010001001 01100010101 11001110101 0100011111 1111110111 0101100101 1011010101 1111010101 1101110111 1101010101 1101111111 1101110101 0011010111 101110101101 1011010111 0101010001 1001010101 11010010111 10001100101 11110011101 1111010101 10101010101 1111000011 1100110100 1101011111 1001000111 1111010111 10110001001 0101110101 1101111001 0101010101 1111011101 1001011101 10011001101 10110100101 0101010101 1101010101 1110010011 11011101001 0101010101 1111010101 1001001101 0111111111 1001011101 0101110101 1101010001 11011101001 0011010101 1101010011 0011010101 1101100101 1101110001 1101011101 1111011101 1101010111 1110011111 1101111001 1001110101 1111111101 1101110111 01010100100 1001010101 1101010101 11011010101 0001001101 0101111101 1001010101 0101010111 0101110001 1101011101 0111010001 1111010101 1111010101 1101100100 1011110001 11101010100 11011010001 1101010001 11101100100 1111011101 01001000101 1101011101 10010101101 1100010101 1111010100 1011111111 1101110101 110101110101 1001001101 11010101010 1111110111 0111010001 01011101001 0111000101 1001011111 0101000101 1111000101 0101010111 11011100001 1101110101 1011010101 10101010101 1101110001 1111111111 01001110101 010011100100 1101010110 1101000101 1111010101 1001011101 1101111101 101010011101 11010001011 0110011001 10110011111 01010101111 1111010101 1100100101 11000101111 0111110111 1111100001 1101011101 1101010111 111101010101 1101010111 1101100101 1111010111 11010001001 11110010001 1001011100 1101110111 11110010101 1101011101 111101110101 0101010111 1101010101 1101010011 1101011101 10111001011 1001011101 1111001101 1100100001 1001010111 1101110101 1011110111 1101010101 11110111001 010101010101 1101011101 1001010101 1111010101 1111011111 01001110001 00101010110 0111011110 1011010101 1101011101 1001011101 0101111110 1101110101 1101110110 1111110101 111010101 0111111101 11010000111 1101111111 11010101001 1110010001 1111110010 1011111111 1100100001 01010010101 110101101111 0101011111 1011111001 1101000101 1111011101 110100100101 1111111101 11010101001 1111111101 1101011100 1111011111 1101010111 0100100101 1001101101 010010010101 1100010001 1011010111 110011111 0101110001 1111000101 11110100111 0101010111 1101010101 1101010101 11110010101 1001010111 1101010111 1011110101 0101110011 1101010101 01111101100 1101010001 1101010101 0011110101 111000101 1100010001 0101110001 1101000101 100100001001 01110100111 1101000101 1100110111 01001011111 11001100100 0101010101 1001000100 1111010101 1011000101 1111010111 1101010111 1100001000 1111011101 1111100101 0101010101 11110010001 0111010001 1101010101 0111110101 1101010101 0101110101 1011010101 0100010101 0101101101 0101010101 01001010001 1001110001 1101010101 0111100101 1101011101 100110001 1101011111 1111101111 0101011101 0101110111 1011100101 1011010101 01010000101 1111010101 110111110101 00001011111 1011110001 01010000100 1101111011 110111001001 1111001101 1011010101 1111010001 0001010101 0101010101 1111111101 1101010101 0101010001 1111110101 0101010101 1101010101 1111010101 10010010101 11110001001 1101010101 1101100101 0100011011 1101011001 1101101101 1001001101 01010010111 1101011101 11001110001 0101010101 10110100101 1100110101 1001010100 1101011111 01010101001 1001010101 0101010111 1101011110 01010010011 11011111010 1101010101 1111011101 0111000101 1101110111 11010101101 11010000101 0100110111 1100010101 110101111111 1101110101 1111110001 1111011101 1111011101 1101010100 10110101111 1111010101 0111010111 1111010001 1101010101 1101111101 1101010001 10111010101 11010101011 11010100001 11001010001 11000010101 1111011101 11010110111 11010100001 1111011111 0101000111 1101010011 0101000101 1111110101 0101001101 0111110011 1101010100 1101001101101 1101011101 1111010011 0101011101 111101010 0101001111 1101110100 1111010101 1011010011 01001110001 0111011101 1111010011 1101010001 1011110111 0101011101 11010010101 1101110011 1101011111 1111010101 0001010101 1001111101 0101001101 1111111110 1011000101 1101110001 1110110001 11001010011 01101010101 1011110111 10001111011 1111111101 0111010101 0111110111 0001010111 1101110101 1001001101 1111011101 1101011100 111101010101
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 8093
  • Average number of words per stanza: 1492
  • Amount of lines: 378
  • Average number of symbols per line: 42 (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; she, her, for, to, as, all, and, his, or, of, in, had, that, thou, thy are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words as, or, the, made, so, where are repeated.

    The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase sung connects the lines.

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