This is an analysis of the poem An Elegy, To An Old Beauty that begins with:
In vain, poor Nymph, to please our youthful sight
You sleep in cream and frontlets all the night, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbcc ddeeff ccgghXbb ggbXggii jjddee kklljjjj jXccmmnn ddiijjggXbbiijjeehh
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,8,8,6,8,8,19,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 0111011101 1101110101 1101010101 1011110101 0101010101 1101010101 1101111111 1111110111 1111010111 01011101001 1011010101 11000100101 0111010101 1101011101 1101010111 1111011101 1101010101 0101011101 1101000101 1011011101 1111010101 1111010101 0111111101 11011101010 1011011101 1111010101 0101110101 01001001101 0101110111 0101010101 0101010111 1101010101 1111011101 1101010101 1111110111 0101000101 11110101010 11010101010 0101000101 0101010101 11011100001 1101010101 1101011101 1101110101 0101011101 1101010101 1101011101 11001011111 1101110101 11110101001 1101011001 1111100001 1101110111 0101010101 11011100101 0101011111 1101111101 1101110101 1101010101 010100101001 0111111101 1111010111 1101010101 110011101011 1101110001 1101010111 1101101111 1101011111
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 344
- Average number of words per stanza: 60
- Amount of lines: 68
- Average number of symbols per line: 45 (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; with, to, or, her, and, for, he are repeated.
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