This is an analysis of the poem Epitaph On A Free But Tame Redbreast, A Favourite Of Miss Sally Hurdis that begins with:
These are not dew-drops, these are tears,
And tears by Sally shed ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab bcbc XdXd cece bbbbXbcbc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11111111 111101 11010111 011101 11111001 111101 11010101 100101 01111110 111101 11111101 110101 11111101 111111 11110101 111101 11010101 010101 11011101 110101 11110101 110001 11110101 111001
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 123
- Average number of words per stanza: 24
- Amount of lines: 24
- 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.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word nor is repeated.
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