This is an analysis of the poem Elegy Xix. - Written In Spring, 1743 that begins with:
Again the labouring hind inverts the soil;
Again the merchant ploughs the tumid wave;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab cdcd efef ghgh cici cjkj hlXl ecec emem mlml ieie efel aeae cdkd amam hbhb eleXXlele
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 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: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 01010011001 0101010101 01001010101 1111000101 1011011101 0101010101 0101010111 1101001001 110100101101 110100110010 1101010101 111000001010 1101010101 1011010101 10011101001 110101101 11010011010 111100101 11110101010 1111010101 1011110101 1101110111 1010100101 1011000101 111111101 11110101001 11111111011 0101011111 1001010111 11110101010 1101010111 1111000110110 1101010101 1100110101 1101000111 0101010101 1001010101 110010101001 1111001001 1101110101 1111010101 1101010001 110010010101 0101010011 1101010101 01010101110 1001010101 11101010001 1111010101 1101000101 1101000101 1111100101 1111110101 10110101001 1110010101 10010100001 1001000101 1011010111 1101011001 0101010101 1111110101 1111010101 1101010101 110010010101 11110101001 1011001101 1101010101 11110101110 11010101001 1101010101 110110011001 1101010101
- Amount of stanzas: 18
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 175
- Average number of words per stanza: 31
- Amount of lines: 72
- 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; my, of, his, its, their are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words again, the, he, my, fly are repeated.
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