This is an analysis of the poem Oh! Breathe Not His Name that begins with:
Oh! breathe not his name, let it sleep in the shade,
Where cold and unhonour'd his relics are laid: ... full text
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- Rhyme scheme: aaaa bbcc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11101101001 111100001011 11011001111 1011111011001 101111101001 11001001111 101111101001 11101001011
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 212
- Average number of words per stanza: 41
- Amount of lines: 8
- Average number of symbols per line: 52 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 10
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; his, in are repeated.
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