This is an analysis of the poem An Epitaph On Doctor Donne, Dean Of St. Paul's that begins with:
He that would write an epitaph for thee,
And do it well, must first begin to be ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccddeeffbbggaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 18,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 1111110111 1101110100 1111111101 1111111111 1111011011 0101010001 1111010101 1011001101 0100110101 1001010101 1111010101 1001111111 11110101001 1110010101 1111010101 1101010101 1111110111 11011100111
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 779
- Average number of words per stanza: 149
- Amount of lines: 18
- 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; to, such are repeated.
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