This is an analysis of the poem Elegy On The Death Of Lady Middleton that begins with:
THE knell of death, that on the twilight gale,
Swells its deep murmur to the pensive ear; ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab Xbcb dede fgfg hihi hbhb cece fjfj klkl ejejXchch
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 0101110111 1011000101 0101010101 1101000101 01010010111 0101001111 11110101010 1011000101 1101010101 1101011101 11010010101 0101001001 0101010101 0101001101 11010101001 1101010101 1011011011 0101110101 11010110001 1101010101 1101000101 1101010101 01010101001 1101000101 0101000101 0101010101 1111110101 1101011101 110101101 01010101001 01010101001 1101000101 1101010101 11100110001 1101010101 1101010001 1110010101 1001010111 11010010101 0101010111 1101010101 0101010101 11010011001 1101011101
- Amount of stanzas: 11
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 176
- Average number of words per stanza: 30
- Amount of lines: 44
- 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; no, her, more are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, no, by are repeated.
The author used the same word the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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