This is an analysis of the poem Elegy Xiv. Declining An Invitation To Visit Foreign Countries that begins with:
DECLINING AN INVITATION TO VISIT FOREIGN COUNTRIES, HE TAKES OCCASION TO INTIMATE THE ADVANTAGES OF HIS OWN. TO LORD TEMPLE.
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Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: a bcbc dada dcdc XXef dbdb ghgh Xfef icic dada diXi caca icic dXdd dcdc cgcg gfgf hhhhXfifi
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 010110100101010110100100001000010110 1101010101 1111010101 0101011101 1101001101 0101111101 01010011001 01010100101 0101010101 0111000101 1101010101 1100101001 1011000101 10101010101 11010011010 1111010101 0111011101 1101010101 0101011101 1101010101 1101010011 1101110101 1111010101 10011010101 1111100001 11110111001 01010100101 1101010101 1110010111 1101010101 0101010101001 1101110111 1101011101 1101010101 1101001001 10011100101 1101010001 101101111001 1011110101 011111001010 1101010101 1101110101 1101110101 01110010101 01001010101 010110101 10011100101 1101010101 01010101001 11010101001 110010101100 1011010101 11010100111 1100100111001 1101110101 1101111101 1011001001 11001110101 1101011101 0101010101 0101010101 1101010101 1011001101 1101010101 1111011001 01001111101 1101010001 11110100101 11001010101 1111010101 1101010101 01001110111 1011010101
- Amount of stanzas: 19
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 172
- Average number of words per stanza: 30
- Amount of lines: 74
- 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; to, of, her, thee, its are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words to, no, 'tis, the, thee are repeated.
The author used the same word let at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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