This is an analysis of the poem Stanzas Subjoined To The Yearly Bill Of Mortality Of The Parish Of All-Saints, Northampton. Anno Domini 1793 that begins with:
He lives who lives to God alone,
And all are dead beside;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab Xcdc ebeb fgfg hbhb iiiX caca dcXc bjbjXicic
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 11110101 111101 11011101 111001 01010010 011111 01011101 010011 11010101 010101 01011111 110101 11000101 110101 11111101 110101 11011101 110101 11110111 110101 11010101 110101 11000101 0100010 11010101 110101 100010001 110101 01010101 111101 010101100 011101 11011111 110101 11010001 010101 110000101 110101 101000101 110101
- Amount of stanzas: 10
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 119
- Average number of words per stanza: 21
- Amount of lines: 40
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to, his are repeated.
The author used the same word who at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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