This is an analysis of the poem Epitaph On The Monument Of A Fair Maiden Lady, Who Died At Bath, And Is There Interred that begins with:
Below this marble monument is laid
All that heaven wants of this celestial maid. ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaaabbccddaXeeffaaggaaahheeiibbgXaaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 36,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 0101010001 11101000101 0111011101 0111110101 1111010101 1101010101 10010001001 01010101001 1101011001 1011010001 1011010001 11010101100 1101010101 1101000111 1111001101 1101010101011 11000010101 0111110101 1101011101 1101010101 1101110101 1011111111 1101010101 11111101001 1101111101 1100010101 1101000101 1101111101 1101110101 1011001101 11011111001 0111011111 1101111100 0111000101 0101010101 0101010101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1614
- Average number of words per stanza: 290
- Amount of lines: 36
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (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; her, she, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word a is repeated.
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