This is an analysis of the poem To His Honour The Lieutenant-Governor, On The Death Of His Lady Marc 24, 1773 that begins with:
ALL-Conquering Death! by thy resistless pow'r,
Hope's tow'ring plumage falls to rise no more!...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Xabbccddaaeeccff X ggfgggggeeggeebbddccaabbccgg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 16,1,28,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 11001111001 1101010111 01010010101 0111010101 1101110101 0101010101 10111100101 0111001001 1011101001 1101010101 0111010101 10110110101 1101010101 1101011001 1111011101 11010000101 10010 0010000101 1101011101 11010011101 0111010101 1001010101 01110010010 0101110101 1110100101 1001110101 110101110011 1111000101 0101000101 1111110101 1011010101 1001000101 1101010101 10000110101 1101011101 1101010101 1101000101 1101110101 1111010111 0101010011 0111010101 1111000101 11010111001 01010111001 1111010111
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 664
- Average number of words per stanza: 111
- Amount of lines: 45
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word as is repeated.
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