This is an analysis of the poem Epitaphs For Two Players that begins with:
I. EDWIN BOOTH
An old actor at the Player's Club told me that Edwin Booth first impersonated Hamlet when a barnstormer in California. There... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: X X abcbddb ceaeffe ghdhddh XXggccg eeiegge gdbdjjX ieeeggX g X gchX Xece dkXk jdidXecdc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,1,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,1,1,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 1101 101101010111110110101010101000101010110010010010010101110100 01100101 01010101 11010101 10111111 1001101 01011101 01011101 010010101 110010100 01110111 11111101 01011101 01110101 11010101 11011101 01111111 10111111 11011101 11010111 11010111 11011101 01011111 010010100 11000101 11010101 10110111 10110101 10100101 11010111 11110101 01100101 01010001 0100101001 11011101 01110101 10010101 01010111 100111001 01010101 01010101 11110011 111101100 11110111 11010111 111111001 01011101 11110101 0111001001 11010110 1101111010100100 111001001000110001001101111010100100 1001110101 0101000101 1111001101 110100101010 1101010101 1111010101 111101101 1101110101 1101010101 0101011101 1010111110100 0111110101 1001111111 1111001101 11001110101 1001000101 011101111 0101010111 1101010101 1111010101
- Amount of stanzas: 16
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 190
- Average number of words per stanza: 34
- Amount of lines: 75
- Average number of symbols per line: 40 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, and, in, his are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words i, the, and are repeated.
The author used the same words i, the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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