This is an analysis of the poem Elegy Ii. On Posthumous Reputation - To A Friend that begins with:
O grief of griefs! that Envy's frantic ire
Should rob the living virtue of its praise;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab cdcd eaea fbfb afaf bgbg baXa eheh cbcb cXca
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1101110101 1101010001 1101010101 0101100101 1011010101 01010100101 1011010101 1101010001 01101010101 01101010101 10100110101 1101010101 11010101001 0111010111 110110101 0101000101 1101010101 1011010101 1011010101 1101010101 1011000101 11001001101 101100101001 1001010111 11111101101 01010010111 1101010101 0101110101 00101101001 1101001101 0111011101 1111010101 0101110101 01110100101 1101110101 1111011101 1111011101 11010101010 11001010101 11001010101
- Amount of stanzas: 10
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 178
- Average number of words per stanza: 30
- Amount of lines: 40
- 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; even, his, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word perhaps is repeated.
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