This is an analysis of the poem Elegy, Imitated From One Of Akenside's Blank-Verse Inscriptions that begins with:
Near the lone pile with ivy overspread,
Fast by the rivulet's sleep-persuading sound,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Xaaa bcbc adad efef gaga hihi
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1011010100 11010010101 1101011101 1101110101 111101011 1101010101 11011101001 1011011001 1111110101 1101100101 0111010101 0101011001 11010100101 100010011101 1101010101 1101010011 0101110101 0101010011 1111010101 11010010001 11001010101 1101011101 1100010101 1101011111
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 180
- Average number of words per stanza: 31
- Amount of lines: 24
- 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.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; her is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word still is repeated.
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