This is an analysis of the poem An Epitaph On Sr John Walter, Lord Cheife Baron that begins with:
Farewell Example, Living Rule farewell;
Whose practise shew'd goodness was possible,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabb cXddccXebbf eeggeeXhii XXddjjf cchfffXXff Xbb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,11,10,7,10,3,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 1101010111 11010101100 110101010 010101010 0101111100 1101011110 1101011101 0101110101 010110110101 1010010111 111100110100 1111011111 1111010101 111111110 1111 011100 01110011111 1111010101 1101110101 1101010111 1101001101 10110011000 0101010100 1101111101 01101010100 0111111101 011101100 1111111101 0101010101 1111001101 1011010101 11001111 01 0111010111 1111101100 1110011100 1111010111 1001011101 1101010101 1101110111 1101001111 1100011011 00011101010 11001101110
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 313
- Average number of words per stanza: 53
- Amount of lines: 49
- Average number of symbols per line: 39 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, his, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word his is repeated.
The author used the same word suppose at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word he at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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