This is an analysis of the poem An Epitaph On The Admirable Dramatic Poet W. Shakespeare that begins with:

What needs my Shakespeare for his honored bones
The labor of an age in piled stones?... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabbccddddeeXXff
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 16,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: heroic couplets
  • Metre: 1111110101 010011011 11010100101 1001100100 1101001101 1111110011 1011010100 11110100100 110110101001 1101011111 1001011001 1101010101 11110001100 11110011010 1110001111 1111011101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 682
  • Average number of words per stanza: 124
  • Amount of lines: 16
  • 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; of is repeated.

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