This is an analysis of the poem On The Death Of J.C. An Infant that begins with:
No more the flow'ry scenes of pleasure rife,
Nor charming prospects greet the mental eyes,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Xabb ccddXXaaee XfgghhXaaaXggcchhiiggjjggfff
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,10,28,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 1101010101 1101010101 1101111101 1010010101 0101010101 1101110101 1101111101 1111000101 1101010101 10010001010 11100111001 1101010001 1101001101 1101110111 01010101100 1111111101 1101100101 1101010101 1011100111101 01011010111 11010101010 1001010001 0101010101 10111001101 100011101110 11101001101 1101000101 1101011101 1001010001 1011010101 1101100101 1111010101 1101000101 01001010101 110111101001 0111011101 1101111001 1001010001 1111011111 0101100011 1001100101 1111110101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 646
- Average number of words per stanza: 106
- Amount of lines: 42
- Average number of symbols per line: 45 (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; thy, your are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word cease is 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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