This is an analysis of the poem On The Death Of The Rev. Dr. Sewell, 1769 that begins with:
Ere yet the morn its lovely blushes spread,
See Sewell number'd with the happy dead....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccdda accXeeeffg ghhXXXaaXc aaccffiijj eeaaiiaaff iX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,10,10,10,10,2,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 1101010101 1101000101 11010110101 1111110111 1111010101 0101000101 0101010101 0011000101 1101010011 1101010101 1111001101 1101000101 1111110010 1011010101 1101011111 1101010101 1101010001 1111110101 1111110001 1101001101 1110110001 1111010101 1000101100111 1010101100110 1101000110 1111010101 1101010101 1101110101 1101010101 10101011101 10101110101 10011111111 10101001101 10111010111 10111010101 10011001101 10101011111 1101010011 10111000101 10100110111 10111000101 10111001111 10111111101 10101010001 10111000101 10111011111 10101000101 10111010101 10111000101 10111001101 1001100110100
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 390
- Average number of words per stanza: 67
- Amount of lines: 51
- 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; ye is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word how is repeated.
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