This is an analysis of the poem To A Gentleman And Lady On The Death Of The Lady's Brother And Sister, And A Child Of The Name Of Avis, Aged One Year that begins with:
ON Death's domain intent I fix my eyes,
Where human nature in vast ruin lies:...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbaaccddbbbXeeffccbbccffaagghhaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 34,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 1101011111 1101001101 0101110101 10110010101 1101101100 0101001101 1100010111 1101010101 1001110101 0000100101 1101010101 1011010001 1101110101 1101001101 0111010101 1111000101 1111011111 11110100101 0101110101 1111000101 0111010101 1101110001 1101010101 1111010001 0101011101 0101010101 01010101001 111111001 1011000101 11010001001 0111010101 0110000110 0101110101 111000101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1469
- Average number of words per stanza: 264
- Amount of lines: 34
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (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; your, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words your, to are repeated.
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