This is an analysis of the poem Elegy Vii. He Describes His Vision To An Acquaintance that begins with:
Caetera per terras omnes animalia, &c. ~ Virg.
Imitation.... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: X a b cdcd Xbeb dfdf dfdf Xded abab gcgc fafa hehX afaf idiD dbdb ejej kjkj gcfc dbdb eded fafa cdcDXkeke
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,1,1,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 10011010100011 1010 110001101011 1101010101 10110100101 1011110101 1011010101 1101011110 11010101001 10011010101 1101010101 10111100101 0101101101 0101011101 1011010111 1111110111 11001010101 0101010101 0101011111 1001010110 1001010101 11001110101 1001010101 1011100101 0101010111 11110110101 0111111101 11110101010 11001110101 11010101010 0101010001 11110100101 1101011101 1101000101 1101001101 1111010111 11110010101 1011011111 11101111110 11111101111 1111011101 0101110101 1001010101 10110110011 1111011101 1101111101 1110011101 0111110101 00101110101 1001111111 1111011001 1101010101 1101110001 111101001001 1001010101 1101010111 1101110111 1111011101 1111110101 11111101010 1101010101 11010101001 1111110111 1111010101 1111111101 11010010101 110010010101 1111110101 11110100101 11010100101 1101010101 10011101001 1101010101 1101010101 0111010101 1111010101 1101110101 11111101101 1110011101 10110101001 1111110101 0101010101 1101000101
- Amount of stanzas: 23
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 158
- Average number of words per stanza: 28
- Amount of lines: 84
- 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; of, my, nor, to, i, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words no, my, too, must, and are repeated.
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