This is an analysis of the poem Epitaph For Mr. William Michie, Schoolmaster that begins with:
HERE lie Willie Michie's banes;
O Satan, when ye tak him,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1110101 1101111 11010111 1101110
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 125
- Average number of words per stanza: 24
- Amount of lines: 4
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (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.
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