This is an analysis of the poem Epitaph On Sir Palmes Fairborne's Tomb In Westminster Abbey that begins with:

Ye sacred relics, which your marble keep,
Here, undisturbed by wars, in quiet sleep; ... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabbbccbXdddeeefffggXdhh
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 24,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 1101011101 1101110101 0101110101 10001010101 10010100001 0111111001 1101010101 0101010101 110100111 0101000101 0101011111 0101010101 0111011110 1011110001 1001011101 11010010111 1101010011 0101010101 11010100101 1100111010011 1011100111 1011010001 0001011101 01010100001
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1085
  • Average number of words per stanza: 177
  • Amount of lines: 24
  • Average number of symbols per line: 44 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, his are repeated.

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