This is an analysis of the poem Elegy Iv. Anno Aet. 18. To My Tutor, Thomas Young, Chaplain Of The English Merchants Resident At Hamburg (Translated From Milton) that begins with:
Hence, my epistle--skim the Deep--fly o'er
Yon smooth expanse to the Teutonic shore!... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XabbccddeXaaXfggeeeeffhhiiiiffffffbbddffbbjjaabbjjffaaaaffeekkbbaaccXfccffffaacceeiiffaaXXllXfffmmiiaaaaccffffXXeeccaabbll
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 122,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 11010101110 1101000101 1101111101 1011110111 1011010111 0010010101 0101011101 0101011101 11000111001 0110100011 1111100001 01010101001 0111010110 010010101 1101010101 0101011101 11111100001 0101000101 11110011011 1101010101 1101110111 0101010101 1101011101 0011000101 1101000101 0101010111 1101011101 0101011101 111111101 1101010101 1101011101 1111010111 11010101001 0101110101 1101110111 1111011101 1101010111 1111010001 1111010101 0110110101 1101110101 0101010101 11011101001 1101011101 1100100101 0101011101 1111000100 1100011101 1001111101 0101011101 01001011101 0111100101 1111110101 1111011101 1001001101 0101011101 11000110101 1101011101 1111010101 1101001101 1101010101 1101010101 0101010101 1101110101 1011010101 11110000101 1111010101 1011011001 1111011110 1111110101 1111011101 01110010101 1100111001 1101011101 101110101 11000010101 1101000111 1101010101 0101010111 1101010101 1011110111 1101001101 1101111101 1111000101 1101000101 0101101101 1101010101 1111010101 1101010101 1100011101 0100010001 0101000101 1111000110 01001011101 1101000101 1111000101 1101110101 01010011101 1001010101 1001010101 1101111111 01010001001 1111010101 1101110101 1101110101 1111010101 1111111101 10100010011 1101001111 1001110111 011101011 1101111001 0111010101 100111010101 1111100101 1101010011 0111110001 0101010101 1111011001 11110101101 11010100101 1001111101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 5266
- Average number of words per stanza: 915
- Amount of lines: 122
- 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; i, has, his, self, to, and, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, of are repeated.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase flies connects the lines.
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