This is an analysis of the poem On The Death Of Mistress Mary Prideaux that begins with:
Weep not because this childe hath dyed so yong,
But weepe because yourselves have livde so long:... full text
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbXXcXddXXXXaaXXccbb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 22,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 1101011111 1101101111 1011110111 11110110101 1101011000 1011111101 10000011111 1101100100 1011011111 1111110111 1011110110 1111010101 10010001010 01000111010 0100100101 1101011111 1001111101 1111111110 11100110101 1011110101 1101000101 1111011101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 954
- Average number of words per stanza: 179
- Amount of lines: 22
- 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; her is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word she is repeated.
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