This is an analysis of the poem An Elegie. Princesse Katherine Borne, Christened, Buried, In One Day that begins with:
You, that can haply mixe your joyes with cries,
And weave white Ios with black Elegies,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXbbaXcXXX ddXeff cXgg hgffaXddXfddgX eeeXgg XXhhgX cXaaggei XajjXei
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,6,4,14,6,6,8,7,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11110111001 1111001100 1101011011 1001100111 1111010001 11010101010 11110000111 0101011100 11110101011 11010110101 1111010011 1101011101 111111100 111101101 1111010011 11100111001 1111101001 011110110 0101111110 1101010101 1111110100 100101010 1100010000 1100010111 1111010111 110101110010 111001101100 1101110100 1111011001 1101011101 1110111101 110111001 10110110110 11010110100 101100111 1101010011 1110011111 1110010001 100100101 1001010101 1101001101 1001111000 1101110111 11011010101 10110111010 1111111101 1011011111 11010110100 1101010001 1111011101 1101000101 101001010 1111111110 1001100100 1111110100 1111111011 1011111011 1111110101 1001100011 10110001010
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 291
- Average number of words per stanza: 53
- 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; and, to, thy, we are repeated.
The author used the same word or at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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