This is an analysis of the poem An Epitaph that begins with:
Here lies one who never drew
Blood himself, yet many slew;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccbbddeeffccXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 18,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111101 1011101 10101110 10111110 111101 1111101 10101010 10101110 1111101 1111101 1010111 1010001 1011111 10101001 1010001 1000101 11101010 10011100
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 556
- Average number of words per stanza: 101
- Amount of lines: 18
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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