This is an analysis of the poem An Elegie On Henry, Fourth Erle Of Northumberlande that begins with:
Ad dominum properato meum mea pagina Percy,
Qui Northumbrorum jura paterna gerit.... full text
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- Rhyme scheme: aXXbXXXb X cXcXXdd eXeXfXf XXXddgX XXXXXhX XiXiihX bdXdXdd XXXXXfX hXhXiXX jXjXXXX hhhhhkk XXXXXll kXkmmkX dXXXcX fXXkkdd XXXXXXX XXXhXii ceceehX XiXiiXX XXXXmiX cXchXgX edeXddj gXjXXee XhXXdjX XdXddXX mdXddjj XdXXdXX hXXXXXj XXfddkk ffXffdd jXjXXXX Xja
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,1,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,6,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 110010001110010 110001010010 1101001101010 1110101010 1101001011100 100100111010 110110110010010 110010110010 10100101001110100100110001001000 1111111111 010010100100 01101010101 00110010100 11010111000 101010110011 1001010111 01001011111 001001010100 10001111111 00110001100 00110001111 11010110010 00110010001 0101010010 01010110010 0101110010 10010100101 011100101 10011100110 110010111110 010111111 01010110100 110100011001 10001001010 100010001010 10011110001 010100010010 11001110111 01010110111 101000111111 101101100101 11010110111 011101001001 01111111011 1011011110 10101011001 011100101 10101111001 11110100010 11110111111 1111110001 010111101100 01110110101 0110101110 110011011101 100111110111 1111011111 11000111111010 111100111111 110101011 11111101111 11010110110 11001011101 110100111110 11101100110 11110111101 1001010100101 11001000100 01111011010 11101001111 11110101101 110101110111 0100101101001 0101001011 100110110101 001001111001 1111110111 1101011111 11101001111 111110111110 100010110011 101110111111 01011011101 111111000101 11001001001 110001111101 0101011001 0010011101 01110011011 1101010100101 100110010101 1011001101 111101110101 0100001010111 1111100010011 111000101 11101011010 10010110011 11110111011 1001010111 010010000100 1110111101 011110101 1111111111 01010101001 01101111011 111001011001 00100111111 1111110101 1011110111 01010111101 1101011101 1100101111 0111110111 0101001000 01010011011 010101011111 11001010101 1110011000111 0101001101 111110101 1100100101011 111111100101 11100010011 1110011001 11010111001 10110101001 11000010101 10110100101 110000011 1101111111 11000101011 10111000101 11100010101 11010001011 01010111000 1100101110 0010110010 1111011001001 01010110111 11010011101 100010101101 0100101101010 011010110111 1010100111 101100100101 1000110111 101110101011 1101101001 01111000101 11010110001 1001110111 11011000101 10100011001 1000100100 0101101001 1001100101 10010110010 100110110101 0101110110 11010110001 01101010111 001100101 01110011101 100001010010 110011011100 0110100010 01010100100 10010101000 1110110101 111010101 1010101100 1101001100 101000100101 1101100101 101100110110 11110100111 1011100011 1010101011 110010011001 01100110001 1101000111 1011010011 01010100111 1111000101 0101110101 1010110101 11011011111 1100110001010 0101110011 11001011101 1110100011000 0111010010 1111100100 0100101100100 1111101100 01010111001 1101010100 101111101 10111011011 10110010011 110111111 01110110101 1110000101 00111101000 1110101101 1110111000 01001011001 0101000111 0110010101 1111110100 11010110101 1011110101 010010110110 0110111001 1011010101 1010011100 010110110100 010100100100 01011011001 01110001100 10100111110 101010101 0100110101 0100110101
- Amount of stanzas: 33
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 301
- Average number of words per stanza: 54
- Amount of lines: 227
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (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; i, in, to, of, not, and, their, ye, your, his, he, thou, thy are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words of, what, the, o, in are repeated.
The author used the same words of, the, o at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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