This is an analysis of the poem An Ode - Inscribed To The Memory Of The Hon. Colonel George Villiers that begins with:
Say, dearest Villiers, poor departed friend,
(Since fleeting life thus suddenly must end)... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccddddddeee ffaaggg eeddhhaaaaaa cciijjkk llmmgdnnffbb ddccc aacciidd llhhaaddoo ddddaammooo ppffooll
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 15,7,12,8,12,5,8,10,11,8,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 1101010101 1101110011 1101110101 1101010111 1111010101 0101011101 1100111111 0101011100 0111010101 1111010101 0101011101 11110011101 1111001101 1101111001 110101010101 01111111110 010101101010 1101011111 01111100101 1111110111 01001010101 101101111101 011100111001 0101010101 11010101101 1101110101 1101110101 11010010101 1011000111 110101011 1001010111 1001110111 10110010111 1101011111 0101101101 1101110101 0101111101 1110001111 1101010101 0101010101 1101111101 1111000101 1001010111 1001110001 1101010001 1011110001 0101110111 1101010111 1101010101 11010101001 11111001010 110100001010 11010010100 0101110111 1101001101 01011010101 1101011101 1101111001 010001010101 111010101 10101000101 1111111111 0101110001 0011000101 1101111101 0101011001 1100110100 1101110101 1101011111 1111011101 0101011101 10010010001 1101011101 1111111101 0101110001 1111111101 1101110111 1011111101 00110101001 0111010101 0101010101 1011000101 0001011101 1011010001 0101011101 1101010101 110100101001 1101110101 11110011101 0101010101 111010101010 00111111010 1100010101 1111111101 1111010101 110101011111
- Amount of stanzas: 10
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 423
- Average number of words per stanza: 74
- Amount of lines: 96
- 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; and, to, that, our, his, nor are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words that, nor, and are repeated.
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