This is an analysis of the poem Epitaph On Her Son H. P. that begins with:
WHat on Earth deserves our trust ?
Youth and Beauty both are dust.... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbaaccadddeeXaaaffXd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 22,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1110111 1110111 11100101 1110101 10010101 01010111 10101011 10010111 101110 1011111 11001101 01110001 11110101 11010101 1010100 1010101 0100101001 1111101 11010001 11100101 1010101 1000101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 722
- Average number of words per stanza: 131
- Amount of lines: 22
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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