This is an analysis of the poem On Ye Bishop Of Meaths Death that begins with:

Mourn widdowd Iland, Mourn, your Pan is dead.
Mourn ye unhappy flocks your Sheapherd Pan is fled;...

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabbcccXdXeedddccXaaXceXffdXd
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 29,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: heroic couplets
  • Metre: 1101011101 110101110101 011101001001 110110101 1100011101 101110101011 001101110111 0110010010 1101 1111111011 110101110001 110100101111 110101110101 10110111001 1001010001 0101110001 01001110111 0101010101 111110101 111101110001 11110101011 101110101 11110011111 111100101 1111010101 0101010001 1011110001 10010010110 110101100101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1278
  • Average number of words per stanza: 240
  • Amount of lines: 29
  • Average number of symbols per line: 43 (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; mourn, your, so, ye, her are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words mourn, as, his are repeated.

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