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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