This is an analysis of the poem To A Lady On The Death Of Her Husband that begins with:

GRIM monarch! see, depriv'd of vital breath,
A young physician in the dust of death:...

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabbbbccccddeeddbbffgghhiiddhhiidd
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 34,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 1111010101 0101000101 1111010001 1101011111 0111011101 1101010011 1111010101 1111110111 01010010101 0111010001 1101111101 110110101001 1101110101 0101010101 11111100101 11010100101 1100010111 1011110101 1111010111 0100010101 1101010101 0111010101 1111110101 1101010011 0011001101 1101110001 1111110101 1101110101 1001010101 0111010101 0101010101 0101000101 1101010101 11010010101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1497
  • Average number of words per stanza: 275
  • Amount of lines: 34
  • 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; nor, to, of are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words nor, to are repeated.

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