This is an analysis of the poem Aan Elegie On Dr. Ravis, Bishop Of London that begins with:
When I past Paul's, and travell'd in that vvalke
Where all our Britaine sinners svveare and talk,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXaabbaabbbbccXXddbXeeXbaaffffgg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 32,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1111110011 1111010111 1110010011 1101111101 0101011011 1111110011 1001010001 1111100101 111101111 1101010101 1100101101 01010010111 1111110011 1111111101 110111110 1011010101 1101011101 1111010101 1111011101 111011000 1101011101 1101011101 1110110101 0101011101 1101010110 0111010101 1111110101 1101100111 1011111101 1111110011 110111101 1111111111
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1428
- Average number of words per stanza: 256
- Amount of lines: 32
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (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; and, to, their are repeated.
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