This is an analysis of the poem Elegy On The Death Of Sir James Hunter Blair that begins with:

THE LAMP of day, with-ill presaging glare,
Dim, cloudy, sank beneath the western wave;... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: abab XXXX cdcd efef ghgh ahah Xhbh adad Xgag ifif XeXe
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 0101011001 1101010101 11001110101 1101000101 1111011111 10110101011 11110111011 11010101011 10101110101 01111100101 0101010111 11010010101 0101100101 1101010101 0101110101 1101000101 10110100101 1100010111 0101010101 0100010101 0111010001 0111010101 11010100101 1101011001 10100111010100 0101110111 1010111101 1101110101 10101010101 0101100101 0101011101 1101010111 1011110111010 1111010101 1111011001 01011111001 101001111101 1101010101 11001110101 1101010101 10101010101 1101010101 11001101010 1111000101
  • Amount of stanzas: 11
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 182
  • Average number of words per stanza: 31
  • Amount of lines: 54
  • Average number of symbols per line: 37 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; that is repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words or, the, low, i are repeated.

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