This is an analysis of the poem On The Death Of Mrs. Elizabeth Filmer. An Elegiacall Epitaph that begins with:

You that shall live awhile, before
Old time tyrs, and is no more:... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabbXXbbcXXXbXddeecccXXbffXa ggXdddhh ccXXbbdd
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 28,8,8,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11110101 1111011 1100101 101110101 1101111 10111101 01011111 1111010 11011001 11001101 01011101 01010111 11010101 101011010 111111011 11001001 00110001 11000101 10010101 11010101 010011101 01010100 01010111 0110010 1110101 101001 10010101 1101101 111000111 011100111 10111110 10011111 11011101 10110101 11010111 11011000 1110101 11110001 11110111 10111001 1011111 01010001 10100101 11110101
  • Amount of stanzas: 3
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 508
  • Average number of words per stanza: 91
  • Amount of lines: 44
  • Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; that, and are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word such is repeated.

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