This is an analysis of the poem An Epitaph that begins with:
Interr'd beneath this marble stone,
Lie saunt'ring Jack and idle Joan. ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaaabbccaaddeeffXdgggggXhhbbiiiiiijjjjggeeeeggeeddggggggkkefXg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 62,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11010101 11011101 11010011 01011101 01011111 010100111 01010101 11010101 11110111 11111101 11010101 10110101 11010101 11110111 110101110 111101110 11010100 11001101 11010101 110010101 111101010 110101010 11110100 01110111 11010101 11111111 100101010 110101010 11111111 11111111 11010101 11011101 11011101 11111001 11111111 01001101 11011101 11010101 11010101 11010101 11010101 11011011 11110101 11011101 110101010 110101010 11011001 11110101 11110101 11010111 110111101 01110111 111001010 010101110 110101011 01010111 10111111 11111101 01110111 11010100 11111111 11111111
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 2349
- Average number of words per stanza: 403
- Amount of lines: 62
- Average number of symbols per line: 37 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; they, nor, their are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words if, they, nor, their are repeated.
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- summary of An Epitaph;
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