This is an analysis of the poem Epitaph On The Monument Of The Marquis Of Winchester that begins with:
He who, in impious times, undaunted stood,
And 'midst rebellion durst be just and good; ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbXXbbXXccddee
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 16,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 11001010101 1101010110 11010111001 0101111101 11010111001 1101011100 1101111101 1011011101 1001011100 10010100101 1011011101 1101011111 1110110101 11001110101 11111101010 01011100010
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 737
- Average number of words per stanza: 124
- Amount of lines: 16
- 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; and, to are repeated.
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