This is an analysis of the poem On Sir Thomas Savill Dying Of The Small Pox that begins with:
Take, greedy death, a body here entomd
That by a thousand stroakes was made one wound,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXXaabbccXXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 1101010110 11010101111 1111010101 1001001101 111010101 0101011101 0101110011 1101000101 01001011101 0101111101 0001011101 01010110101 010011111001 1110011001
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 625
- Average number of words per stanza: 115
- Amount of lines: 14
- 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.
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