This is an analysis of the poem A Funeral Poem On The Death Of C. E. An Infant Of Twelve Months that begins with:
Through airy roads he wings his instant flight
To purer regions of celestial light;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccddeeccddaaaaaabXcceeffggeehhXXhiiggaXccc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 46,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1101110101 0101000101 01111000101 0111010101 1011011101 11001010101 1010011111001 0101010101 0101100101 1011111101 1101100101 1101010101 11010100101 1011111001 10101010111 101010110111 10111110111 101111001001 10101110111 10100111101 1101110101 1101110101 1011010101 1111010111 1101010101 1111010001 01001001011 0101110101 1111100101 1101011001 1001000111 1111000101 01010001001 1011000101 101100101110 1111110110 1111111101 1101111101 1101010101 1001010101 1011110101 1111010011 1101110110 0111011101 0101110101 0100110011
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 2043
- Average number of words per stanza: 353
- Amount of lines: 46
- 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; of, my, 'e'er, yet, i, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word 'e'er is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines heart is repeated).
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