This is an analysis of the poem Elegy On The Death Of Robert Ruisseaux that begins with:
NOW Robin 1 lies in his last lair,
He'll gabble rhyme, nor sing nae mair;... full text
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- Rhyme scheme: aaabab bbbcbc dddede
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110110011 1111111 11001101 11111 11011101 101111 0101110101 010101111 111111110 11011 110111110 1101 1110101 11011111 11110101 0101 11111111 11011
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 192
- Average number of words per stanza: 37
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 28 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- 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; and is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines him is repeated).
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