This is an analysis of the poem Elegiac Stanzas that begins with:
WRITTEN DURING SICKNESS AT BATH.
When I lie musing on my bed alone, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: X abab cdcd efef cgcg hihi aXaX dbdb cXcj ckck kaka jaja hfhf fjfj caca cjcj dada cccc ffff clcl fcfc cick bfbf fgfg jfXf
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 10101011 1111011101 1100010101 1101011111 1001110101 1011011101 1111110101 1011010101 11010110111 11010100101 0011110111 11111111011 0101000111 1001011101 1001010101 11010111101 1101110101 1111110111 1111010011 1101111101 1101111111 1111110101 01011101100 0101010101 10111101010 1111110101 1101010101 1111110001 1100010111 10111111001 1001001101 11111100101 1101101111 1101111101 0111110101 1101010101 11001010011 1111001101 10011111000 1111011101 1111111101 11110100101 11001011101 1101011101 1100011101 1101110001 010110110011 1100011011 1111010111 1001010101 100010111001 1101011011 1100010101 1101110111 1111011101 01001110101 1101110101 11111101001 1111011101 1111110101 01010011001 0110011101 1011011101 11110010101 1111010101 11110110101 1001110101 0101010111 1101010101 1111010101 0101010111 1011011111 0101110101 1111110011 010111001 1101011101 1100110101 1101011101 1101010111 1101010001 1001010101 10110111101 0101010101 1111011101 1101110001 11110101001 01001110101 1111010101 0101110101 1001010101 1110001101 1111010101 1011111111 1101111101 0101010111 1101011100 1101100001
- Amount of stanzas: 25
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 169
- Average number of words per stanza: 31
- Amount of lines: 97
- 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, thou, my are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, was, 'twas, the, thou, when are repeated.
The author used the same words and, thou at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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