This is an analysis of the poem An Epitaph Upon Husband And Wife that begins with:
TO these whom death again did wed
This grave 's the second marriage-bed.... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccddeeffffgg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 16,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01110101 011010101 11010111 11110001 01110111 01111111 1010111 1010101 1110101 00111111 1011011 1010101 10010101 1010001 1110001 11110101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 539
- Average number of words per stanza: 103
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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