This is an analysis of the poem To The Honourable T. H. Esq; On The Death Of His Daughter that begins with:
WHILE deep you mourn beneath the cypress-shade
The hand of Death, and your dear daughter...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXabbccddeeaaffggeegghhaaeeiiffjjkkXXeekX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 41,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 1111010101 010111110 1 0111011101 1111000101 1101010101 0101010011 10110011001 1101010001 0101111101 0101110101 1101010101 1101010001 0101010101 0101000101 1100010111 0111011101 0101010101 1011110101 1101110111 11110010101 1101010101 1101010101 0111110001 1111010101 1111110101 1101010101 0011100101 1101110101 1111000101 10001000101 10111011011 10111111101 100100010111 10011100101 10111011101 10111110110 1011111101 1010111001 101011101001 100011101010
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1843
- Average number of words per stanza: 299
- Amount of lines: 41
- 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 she is repeated.
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