This is an analysis of the poem An Elegy On Mrs. Thompson that begins with:

Unhappy fair, by fatal love betray'd!
Must then thy beauties thus untimely fade! ... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabbaaccddeeffggaaggaabbbb
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 26,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 0101110101 1111010101 11110101001 0101010101 1111110101 1111111101 1001110101 11110010101 1101010111 1101010101 1101010101 1111010001 1110110101 1111011001 1100010101 0101010101 01011011101 111010101101 00010101001 1101011101 1111111101 1001101001 1101111101 1101100111 1011111101 1111011101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1186
  • Average number of words per stanza: 204
  • Amount of lines: 26
  • Average number of symbols per line: 45 (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 is repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word to is repeated.

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  • summary of An Elegy On Mrs. Thompson;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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