This is an analysis of the poem Elegy Written At Hotwells, Bristol that begins with:
INSCRIBED TO THE REV. W. HOWLEY.
The morning wakes in shadowy mantle gray, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: X abab cdXd eaea afaf fafa aXaf cccc ghgh ijij jkjk fcXc lblb cice mlml bjbj gggg jnjn ejej gcgc fbfb bfbf hchc odod jajaXcoco
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 0100110010 01010100101 01011100101 1001010101 1111011101 01001110101 11010100101 10110010101 1011010101 1111011101 1011110111 1101001111 11010010001 1111010101 0111010101 0101011101 1101010111 0111110101 1111010101 1101000101 1111110101 0111001001 1011111110 11001110101 0101010001 1111010101 0101001111 0101011101 11011010101 01011101001 0111010111 0101010001 110100100101 11110001010 0101010101 111101010110 1111110101 01010011101 0111011111 1101010101 110100111001 1101010101 0101010101 11001111101 0101101101 1001110101 1001111101 11011101001 1111010101 01011111001 11111001010 11110101001 11001010101 1101010101 110101110101 1101010011 0111010111 1101010111 0101011101 1101110101 1101010101 1101010101 0101001101 1111100001 11001101101 1011011101 010011100101 1101100101 1111010101 11010011111 1101011111 1111001101 1111110101 1101100101 1111001010010 1101011101 111111001010 0101110101 0101001101 0111011101 1111010111 1001110101 1101010101 1101010011 11010100101 1101110101 1111011100 10111101101 1111011111 1010110111 1111111101 1001010101 1101110101 1011011101 0101010111 1101010101 1101110101 01101100111 11001110101 1001011101 1001111101
- Amount of stanzas: 26
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 176
- Average number of words per stanza: 31
- Amount of lines: 101
- Average number of symbols per line: 45 (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, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, of are repeated.
The author used the same words the, some, thankful at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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