This is an analysis of the poem Upon The Death Of Lord Hastings that begins with:
Must noble Hastings immaturely die,
The honour of his ancient family, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abccabccddeeaXffgfabddaahhiijjggkkggiilliihhkkffffggggiiccccmmhhhhmmXXgXiieecXhhcciXnnccaafXhhabooddnnabcccc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 108,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 11010100001 0100010100 1011010101 0101010101 1101110011 0101010100 0111010111 111110001 0100010101 0001001101 0101001101 1101101101 1101111000 10010100100 1101110111 1101110111 1111010111 1101111100 0011010110 0100011100 01011011101 1101110101 01010101001 111010010111 1011011101 1111110001 0101110011 0111011101 11001010011 11000101001 1011010011 1011011101 10111110101 1001011011 0111000111 1101001100 1011011111 011101010 111001101 0101010111 1101111101 1111110100 1101100111 11101110111 1101001111 1111011101 0101011111 1111110101 0101111111 11010110101 10111010111 0101010101 1111011011 01010000101 1101111101 11011011001 1001111101 110011010101 1101010100 0101010001 1101001111 1111010101 1011100101 01000010101 1101010111 111101010 1111011101 1010011111 11111101100 100101010 11001011110 1101010000 1111101100 0111011111 1111011011 1111011101 1101001111 01010100101 110110110101 101101110 11111011011 101111101 11010110110 10111000110 1101010101 0111110101 1111111111 0111010001 1111100101 110011100111 0111110101 0111010100 1111010101 1101010100101 11010011001 10011111100 0101010111 0111010011 1111010111 00100010101 010010001101 10101011111 0101101100 0101001100 11010010011 1101000111 011100101 1000010101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 4831
- Average number of words per stanza: 831
- Amount of lines: 108
- 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; to, be, and, with, his are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word thus is repeated.
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