This is an analysis of the poem Elegy Xxvi. Describing The Sorrow Of An Ingeneous Mind that begins with:
Why mourns my friend? why weeps his downcast eye,
That eye where mirth, where fancy, used to shine?... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab cdcd bdbd efef eeee baba ghgh ibib dhdh jbjb gaga ebeb abab igig bbbb adaX fdfd kaka alal hdhd gdgd elel dfdX cbcb eheh ibcb adaX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1111110111 1111110101 1101101101 011100010111 1111010101 1111110101 10111101001 1101111001 1011110101 1101011101 01010110011 1111010101 1111011111 1101101101 11110100101 1111110111 1111010101 11010101010 01010101001 11010101010 110100100101 1101010111 1101010001 1101110111 1101011101 0111110101 0101110101 0111010111 10001001101 1111000101 1101011101 1101010101 1101010101 1001110001 1111010101 1100100101 1111011101 0111010101 0111010101 1101000111 11001010101 10001000101 1101010111 1111100101 1011111101 1011000101 1111010101 1101110101 1001010111 1001110101 1111010101 1111011111 1011110101 11010100101 1111010101 1101010101 1101111101 0101011101 1101100101 1101110001 11010100111 11010011101 1101010111 11110101110 11011010111 1110110101 0101110101 1111011111 1011010101 11110010101 10111101001 1101010111 1111111101 1101010101 0111011101 1111110111 1101010101 1111011101 1101000111 1101010111 1111111101 0101011101 1101111111 1101110101 1111010101 1111000101 1101011111 1101100111 101111001011 1011011101 1011011101 1101001101 1111110101 1111010101 1011100101 1101010111 1101010101 11010100101 11010100101 1111011101 1110010101 0101010111 100110100101 11010101001 11110101001 1101100101 1101010101 01010101001
- Amount of stanzas: 27
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 176
- Average number of words per stanza: 32
- Amount of lines: 108
- 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; in, my, had, her, and, i, so, not are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words i, not are repeated.
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