This is an analysis of the poem Elegy On The Death Of Mr. Phillips that begins with:
No more I hail the morning's golden gleam,
No more the wonders of the view I sing;... full text
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- Rhyme scheme: abab cdcd efXf ghgh ijij jjjj dXXd klkl emem mbmb mimi meme lmlm ilil mhmh hjhj fiXi bdbd caca mdmd jmjm meme fhfh dldl hfhf icic dada hghd ejej jmjm nlnl igigXjdjd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1111010101 1101000111 10010010101 1001010111 1111010101 1101110101 1111010101 1101010011 1011000101 0111110101 11010100110 11010010111 1101010101 1111011101 1101011101 1101010101 1101010101 0101010101 1100110101 1001010101 11010100101 0101010101 1100010101 1101000101 0101010101 1100010101 01001000101 1101010101 01010010101 1101010011 10101110011 11001000111 110101001 1101000101 11010100001 110110111 0101010101 1101000101 1101010101 1101000101 11010101001 0101100101 0101010111 01010101001 01010010101 1101010101 1101010111 1011000101 1001010111 1011110001 01010100111 01110100111 0101010101 10010001001 1101011101 11110100101 0101101111 1011010111 1101011101 1111010111 0111010101 111101101 01010010101 1101010101 101100101001 11010001001 0101011101 0111000101 0101011111 1111110101 1101010101 1001010111 1101010001 1011010101 0101010011 111100101 11001000101 0101010101 0101010101 1101010001 1001110001 1101010101 1011010011 10110010101 1101010001 01010101110 1101010101 01001100101 10110100101 10101011111 0111011101 01011100101 1101010101 1011010101 01110001010 1111110101 11010100101 1101000101 1101010101 1101010101 1001010111 01010101001 11001010101 1011010101 1101000101 0111110101 1111110001 0101000101 1111010101 01011100101 1101010001 1001010101 1100010111 0101010001 1101011101 0101010101 1101010101 1101010101 1100010101 0101010101 1111110101 01111100101 0101010111 1001110101 11010100101 1001000101 1101011011 1011110101 1101010101 1111011101 0101010011 1111000101
- Amount of stanzas: 33
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 170
- Average number of words per stanza: 30
- Amount of lines: 132
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (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; i, of, so, his, my, she, and, now, thy, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words no, say, so, his, her, and, i'll are repeated.
The author used the same word peace at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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