This is an analysis of the poem An Epitaph that begins with:
O MORTAL folk, you may behold and see
How I lie here, sometime a mighty knight; ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXaaXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1101110111 1111110101 010111100 1111100111 1001110011 110101011 1101100100
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 361
- Average number of words per stanza: 55
- Amount of lines: 7
- Average number of symbols per line: 51 (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; and is repeated.
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