This is an analysis of the poem Monody On Henry Headley that begins with:

To every gentle Muse in vain allied,
In youth's full early morning HEADLEY died!... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabbccddeeffaagghhffaXhhccaaffaaeeffaaccaaff
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 44,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: heroic couplets
  • Metre: 01001010111 0111010101 1111010101 0111110101 0101010101 0101010111 1101010101 1111111101 1101110101 1101010101 11010011111 1011010101 1111011101 0101010101 0101010101 1100010101 1111011101 11001110101 10010010111 1101000101 10111000101 01011100111 1101001101 1011011111 1001011111 0111010101 01011100101 01001010101 01010010101 1101000101 1111010101 1001110101 1101010101 1111000101 1101010111 1101111100 1110010101 0101001101 11110010101 01010011101 1101010111 0101111111 01110100001 1111010111
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1978
  • Average number of words per stanza: 339
  • Amount of lines: 44
  • Average number of symbols per line: 44 (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; his, and are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, the are repeated.

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