This is an analysis of the poem On The Death Of Mr. James Van Otton that begins with:

The first day of this month the last hath bin
To that deare soule. March never did come in... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabbccddeeffXaffXXXXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 22,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: heroic couplets
  • Metre: 0110010111 0111110010 110111111 1101010101 11101011101 1101110101 1101000111 0101111101 110100111 0101010111 0111011111 0101011101 10110001010 0100100101 0110111101 1111111111 10101110100 1101101111 1101111111 1100010101 1101100101 0111011101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 958
  • Average number of words per stanza: 184
  • Amount of lines: 22
  • 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; as is repeated.

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