This is an analysis of the poem An Epitaph On The Marchioness Of Winchester that begins with:

This rich Marble doth enterr
The honour'd Wife of Winchester,... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXaabbccbbddeeffffgghhccddggijbbggkkccXXhhddXXllaaXXXXccddggiiXXaajiffffcc
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 74,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 0110110 010010110 01010111 0110101 1000101 1111101 1011111 1110111 1011101 01010101 11010001 11101101 10111111 01010001 01110101 1010101 01011001 01111101 1110101 10011101 10010111 11010101 11010101 01000101 11010111 11100001 11011011 10011001 10100100 1111111 01010101 110011101 1010101 1110101 11111101 1010101 01000101 11111001 110010101 1110101 10110101 11110101 1110111 1001001 1011111 1010100 1010111 1110101 1001011 1111101 1010110 1011111 1010100 1110111 1010011 1110101 1110111 1110101 1100101 01001101 111111010 101101010 11100100 11010100 010100101 01111001 11011111 11100100 1010101 01010011 1011101 11010101 011101001 11001101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 2644
  • Average number of words per stanza: 444
  • Amount of lines: 74
  • Average number of symbols per line: 35 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; her is repeated.

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

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