This is an analysis of the poem An Elegie. On The Death Of Mrs. Cassandra Cotton, Only Sister To Mr. C. Cotton. that begins with:
Hither with hallowed steps as is the ground,
That must enshrine this saint with lookes profound,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaXXXXbbccdd eeXfXfghiijjj XgkkeXeXaaiX llXXXXfXf mmffXe nnhXXXiX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,13,12,9,6,8,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1001011001 11010101001 1111101111 1010110101 1001010001 1111110101 01001100101 00111101001 1110111111 01011110011 1011010111 1111010111 11111110101 1101010111 1101001111 1111011111 0101001100 0110011111 11011101010 1111110001 11101101101 11110100101 1001001100 1101110100 01010000100 1011001111 0101110110 10110101001 0101110101 1101011101 1111110110 11001101110 10110110001 1011001100 110111101 1111011101 1110100110 100101001010 01010100110 1101111101 1100010011 0101011101 10111110101 1111110100 11010101110 11001101111 1001111101 0100011101 0101110101 11100010101 10011100 1111111101 1111111101 11001010100 1111011111 0101010100 1111110101 1101111100 110111111 111111011
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 441
- Average number of words per stanza: 80
- Amount of lines: 60
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (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; your, to, and are repeated.
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