This is an analysis of the poem Ode To Stephen Dowling Bots, Dec'D that begins with:
And did young Stephen sicken,
And did young Stephen die?... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab XXXc dcdX eceX bfbf dggg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1011010 101101 1001110 100101 1111010 110101 1111110 110101 11010101 110101 11010101 010101 0111101 110101 11010111 110101 11110101 110111 01000111 110101 11111101 010111 0101110101 00100011
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 136
- Average number of words per stanza: 23
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (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; and is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
The author used the same word no at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word bots at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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