This is an analysis of the poem Epitaph On My Ever Honoured Father that begins with:
O YE whose cheek the tear of pity stains,
Draw near with pious rev'rence, and attend! ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcbcX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ottava rima
- Metre: 1111010101 1101010101 1101010101 0101010101 01001111101 0101111101 0101010101 11010101010
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 356
- Average number of words per stanza: 64
- Amount of lines: 8
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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