This is an analysis of the poem Bishop Orders His Tomb At Saint Praxed's Church, Rome, The that begins with:
Vanity, saith the preacher, vanity!
Draw round my bed: is Anselm keeping back? ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcdefdeghebcdijklgdfdmbkijendopepiXfbhicaXicleehiehbdlhjioqjhnnXiomdifhdeXfofedXibiebinbdeqdiehifiXnibcedgdoXbkXoijfkdXdXoe
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 124,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1001010100 1111010101 1011111111 1111001101 1101011111 1101110101 1101111101 1111111101 1111010101 1111001111 0011010101 101110001111 11111101111 1101010111 1101010111 0111011111 11010010111 1111010101 11010001101 1111011111 11010100101 11100101101 1100010111 0101011101 1111110011 1111010111 0111011111 0111111101 1101010101 1111100101 1100010101 1111111111 1011011101 1111010011 1111110101 1111101111 0111010111 1101010101 1011111111 1001010111 1101001101 1111010010 1101111101 11011000101 1111011101 1110010001 1101110111 1101011101 1100010111 1101111111 1101010110 110011101 0110111111 1100111111 1110110101 0101011101 1111000111 0101010101 1100010111 1001011101 1100010111 1111111101 1011010111 0101110111 101001010100 1100011101 1111110101 1101110111 1111010101 11111001011 1101011001 1111110101 1011111101 1100011101 1011110110 11011101001 1101110101 1011010101 1111111100 110110001 1111110111 1101010111 011100011 11111100011 1001111101 1111101101 1111111111 11010010101 0011110101 1111010111 1001010011 0101011101 1011110011 1101010101 1111000101 1111011111 1101010101 1110000111 1101110101 1011101100 1101111101 1100110111 1011010101 1101110111 1111010101 1101011111 0111010101 1001111101 1001010101 0101111000 1011011111 101111101111 1111101000 0111011101 1001010111 1001110101 1111000101 1111110101 1001110111 1101010100 1110110111 1111110011 1101100101 1111011111
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 6134
- Average number of words per stanza: 1021
- Amount of lines: 124
- Average number of symbols per line: 48 (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; she, and, i, peace, my, ye, me are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
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