This is an analysis of the poem Lines On A Friend, Who Died Of A Frenzy Fever, Induced By Calumnious Reports that begins with:
Edmund! thy grave with aching eye I scan,
And inly groan for heaven's poor outcast, man!... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccddeeffggffaa ddhhiihhffiijj ddccgg ffggffii fffX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 18,14,6,8,4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 1011010111 11011101111 1101110101 01000100101 1101010101 1101010100 0101010101 1011010011 101111010010 11010001010 01011110101 1101010101 1101010101 1101010101 0101010001 1111010111 1101110101 1011010101 1101110101 1011000111 1101010101 0101110011 1111010101 01001110100 1011010101 1011110111 1100111101 1100010111 0111010101 11110000101 1101011101 0111011101 1101011101 11011110111 1111111111 1111010101 0101011101 1000010101 01110010101 10101010101 01010101001 1101110101 1101101101 11010111011 1111101101 01010010101 0011110101 1111010101 10100110111 11111100101
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 448
- Average number of words per stanza: 78
- Amount of lines: 50
- 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:
There are many exclamation marks in the poem. The speaker is excited. He or she has strong feelings on the subject that is described in the poem.
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