This is an analysis of the poem Epitaphium Erotii that begins with:
HERE lies Erotion, whom at six years old
Fate pilfered. Stranger (when I too am cold,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaaabb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1110011101 1101011111 1101101101 00110100101 1011101111 1001110101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 264
- Average number of words per stanza: 50
- Amount of lines: 6
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (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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