This is an analysis of the poem Epilogue To Lessing's Laocooen that begins with:
One morn as through Hyde Park we walk'd,
My friend and I, by chance we talk'd... full text
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- Rhyme scheme: aaXbcdaaeecc eeffghgbbffffcciijjkkbX eeccffggcdcccggbbkkaallmX ffggkkffffffjjff ffggnnkemmaa dcbbggjjiiaannbbcX ffccggooffggaXkkiiffgg jjjjeeggiimmbbppmmeeggke eeffiiffpp kklljjccccjjeeooggcXmmeemm ggffcdeebbhhccXkqqeebX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,23,25,16,12,18,22,24,10,26,22,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11111111 11111111 010110 11010111 01011101 11001100 01000101 11111111 11010101 100011011 11001111 101010101 111101001 11010101 100110101 10010101 01001111 11010110 11010101 011100101 01010101 0101001 111010101 01001101 010110101 11001011 01111101 01110111 11010101 11011101 10011101 11110111 110101001 10010111 101001001 111110011 10011101 01110101 1101000101 01010001 01010101 11011101 01110011 111100101 11110100 11010111 11010001 101100101 10111101 01000101 01010101 01011101 11011111 11011101 11110111 11101111 01010111 01010111 11110101 010010101 11110101 11010111 10110101 01011101 110010101 11000101 110100101 11011101 11011101 010101001 11110101 10010111 11111101 01010111 110100111 01110101 110101101 11110111 10010101 11011101 0010010101 110010101 11010111 10110101 11010101 0110001 01010001 11000101 100010 01110111 10110001 10110111 11010101 11111111 10010111 11011101 10010101 01000101 11110101 11010101 11100101 01011101 11010101 11111111 01010111 1000101 10111101 11010101 01010101 11011101 11010111 10110101 11010111 11010111 01010101 11011011 01010101 01010101 11011101 11011100 11110111 11110111 01011001 11011101 11011101 10111101 10110101 11111001 11111101 01010101 01100101 01000101 01111101 11010111 01011101 11100101 111111010 111111010 11110101 01111101 01110101 110101101 01011101 01110111 01110111 01100100 01010001 01000101 01011101 01000101 01000101 11010001 11010001 01110111 01000101 01110101 11010101 11000101 11010101 10110111 11110101 11011111 11010101 11010101 01011101 11000101 11010111 0010001 11110111 01011111 11011101 11010111 11110011 110000111 01010001 11110100 01010101 110001001 01010111 01000111 11010111 11010110 11010111 11100101 11111101 11110111 01010101 11010111 10010111 011000101 100010101 10010001 10010111 11010100 101101001 11011101 11010001 1111001001 010101010 010101010 11011101 11010111 11010101 110101101 100101101 01110111 01011101 11010101 11001101 110111101
- Amount of stanzas: 11
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 688
- Average number of words per stanza: 121
- Amount of lines: 210
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (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; we, and, of, them, they, some, what, to, in are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, and, attend, they are repeated.
The poet repeated the same word ' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The words/phrases sore, they connect the lines.
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