This is an analysis of the poem A Bard's Epitaph that begins with:
Is there a whim-inspired fool,
Owre fast for thought, owre hot for rule, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaXbXb cccdcd bbbebe fffgfg aaahah
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01010101 11111111 11011101 1111 11010111 1101 01010101 110010101 11001001 1111 10010101 1101 01011101 11010101 11011101 1101 11110101 0101 01010001 11010101 11010101 1101 11010111 1101 10011011 11010101 11010101 0101 11010101 0101
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 186
- Average number of words per stanza: 32
- Amount of lines: 30
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; owre, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words owre, and are repeated.
The author used the same word is at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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