This is an analysis of the poem On The Death Of Mr. Viner that begins with:
Is Viner Dead? and shall each Muse become
Silent as Death, and as his Musick Dumb?...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccddXceeccffccggddcc cceeaa cchhiijjccXX kkllcc ccmXjjmmccnnggg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 24,6,12,6,15,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 0101111101 1011110101 1101010101 1101001111 1111010001 1111011001 1011001101 1011010101 1100010010 1111011101 1111110111 1111010101 1111011111 1101010101 1111000101 0101010001 110010100101 11000011001 1011100101 0101110101 1101011101 1110000101 0110010011 11001110001 0101000101 1101101101 1111111111 0101010101 1111001101 1111110101 0101100001 1001010101 0101010101 1011011011 1101010101 1100010101 0101010001 10110010001 11001001101 1101011101 11010001010 1101110001 1111110101 0101010101 0111011001 0111111101 11010001001 1011100101 0111110101 1111110011 11000110101 0101110100 10011000101 1101110101 1101110001 1101010101 1101001101 0101010101 1101000101 1101101101 1110010101 11010100101 000101010001
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 536
- Average number of words per stanza: 95
- Amount of lines: 63
- 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; his, how, in, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words that, how, and, where are repeated.
The author used the same word the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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