This is an analysis of the poem Elegy Iii. On The Untimely Death Of A Certain Learned Acquainance that begins with:
If proud Pygmalion quit his cumbrous frame,
Funereal pomp the scanty tear supplies;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab bcbc dede fcfc gfgf hihi caca bjbj hfhf bhbh khkh dldl hihiXhchc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 0111010101 1001010101 1101010101 110110101 11000110101 1011010101 0101010101 1101010001 11010111001 1100111010001 1001110101 11001011001 1101010101 1101110101 1011010111 0101010101 11110101001 1101010101 1101010111 1101010111 1101010101 0101010101 1101010101 011010101 1101010101 11011100101 1101010101 11010100101 0111010111 01110001010 11001000101 111000001010 1101111001 11010011001 1101111101 1101111101 1101111101 1101110111 1101000101 0101010101 1111111101 1111011101 1001110001 0101010101 1111111101 1101010101 1101011101 11010101001 1101100101 1101010101 01001010101 11011100111 101101101 10111100101 1101011101 1101010001
- Amount of stanzas: 14
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 177
- Average number of words per stanza: 31
- Amount of lines: 56
- 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; he, knew, to, his, muse, she, loved, ye are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words he, she, as are repeated.
The author used the same words he, i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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