This is an analysis of the poem Elegy Xxi. Taking A View Of The Country From His Retirement that begins with:
Thus Damon sung-What though unknown to praise,
Umbrageous coverts hide my Muse and me,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab cdcd efef fdfd cgcg fafa hfhf eeee ieie haha jkjk lele fefe aXag aaaX meme iaia ngng ffffXcgcg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 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: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1101110101 1001011111 1101010111 0101010111 0111010101 1111110101 0111110111 01010011101 10111100111 1101111101 1101110101 1101110101 1001110101 11001010111 01011100111 11001010101 10110101001 1111100111 11010010001 0101010011 1001011101 1011110101 10111010101 01010010101 11100100101 10110100101 1110010101 1101011101 11010111010 1101010111 11010101010 010010100101 1111010101 0101010101 01010001001 1111110001 10010101001 0101010101 0111011101 0101010001 01010100101 1001011101 01010101001 10110100101 1111110101 1101110001 1111110101 01010100101 1111010111 1101110101 11001010101 01000100101 1101111101 11011111010 01110100101 0001110101 1001011101 11011100101 000100101001 1011010101 1101000101 0101110101 10011010101 0111000101 1111110101 1111000101 0101111101 110111001001 1011111101 0111010101 11010100101 01010100101 10110010011 10001010101 0101000101 11010010101 1111000101 10010001011 110100101001 11110011111
- Amount of stanzas: 20
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 177
- Average number of words per stanza: 30
- Amount of lines: 80
- 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; or, to, nor are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word where is repeated.
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