This is an analysis of the poem On The Death Of Ladie Caesar that begins with:

Though Death to good men be the greatest boone,
I dare not think this Lady dyde so soone.... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXbXXXccXXXXddXXeXbbffggcceeXhiiccbbXdihjjXXbbXa
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 48,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 1100100101 1111010111 1111110111 1101111011 1101010101 0101011000 1111011111 1101011011 1111000111 1111010101 0101010111 111110101 1111010111 1100110111 1101110101 1101010100 1111011110 1110110101 0101111001 1110010101 1101010101 1101001101 10111011001 1101110101 1110011100 1100010101 1101001101 11110100101 0100110101 1100110101 1110110100 1100011100 1111011101 0101110101 1111110100 1011010101 0100110110 1100010111 1111000100 1111110101 1011010110 1001010110 0111010111 1101011111 0101111101 1101010101 1011010101 1110110111
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 2050
  • Average number of words per stanza: 387
  • Amount of lines: 48
  • Average number of symbols per line: 42 (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; should, her, as, may, so are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words as, may are repeated.

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