This is an analysis of the poem Elegy Iii. Anno Aet. 17. On The Death Of The Bishop Of Winchester (Translated From Milton) that begins with:
Silent I sat, dejected, and alone,
Making in thought the public woes my own,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccddeeffbbccccaaggffhhcciiccaaccXcbbddhhccXXXeccjjdddccffbbeXjfhhaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 71,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 1011010101 1001010111 1101010011 01010011101 1101011101 1001010001 1101010101 1101010101 1101010101 1101011101 0101110001 1101110001 1111110101 10110101001 1101110101 1101011101 1101110111 0111110101 1101110101 11010011101 1101110101 1011110110 110110101 1101010101 1101101101 1101010111 11001011101 1111010101 1101011101 0101110001 1111010101 1101010101 1100010101 11010001001 1101111101 1101011101 1111011110 1101000101 1101010101 1101110101 1101010101 11010101001 1100110101 10110010111 0101010101 10101110101 0101100101 0101010101 110101010110 01011100111 1111010101 0101010101 1101110101 0101010111 01010010101 0101011111 1101010101 10011010011 0101010101 0101011101 0101011101 1101011001 1101011101 1011110101 11110101010 1101110101 0101100101 1101111101 0101011101 1111010101 1001111001
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 3120
- Average number of words per stanza: 547
- Amount of lines: 71
- 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; and is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, why, with, his are repeated.
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