This is an analysis of the poem On The Death Of A Very Young Gentleman that begins with:

He, who could view the book of destiny,
And read whatever there was writ of thee, ... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: XabbccXdeeffccccffgghhXciiffccffaaccccjjaafffccdddXeeaa
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 55,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: heroic couplets
  • Metre: 1111010100 1111011101 11010011001 1101001111 1111001101 0111110111 11011101010 1101111111 1101010111 0101110101 11111111001 0111110101 0101010111 01010010101 0101010101 1111001101 1100010101 10110010001 1111110101 11111010101 1101010101 1111010100 1111011100 1101010111 1101010101 0101010101 1101011111 10110111001 1101111110 110010010001 1111010101 1110010101 1001001101 0101110001 1111111101 0101011101 11110101101 1101010101 01111101001 1101110101 1111110101 0101010101 1101101101 1111011111 1100111101 1111010101 1101010111 11010010011 1101010101 01001111101 01011101010 11110111001 1011110101 1111010101 010101111101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 2379
  • Average number of words per stanza: 434
  • Amount of lines: 55
  • 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; such, not, i, so are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words that, the are repeated.

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