This is an analysis of the poem On The Death Of Mrs. Mary Neudham that begins with:

As sinn makes gross the soule and thickens it
To fleshy dulness, so the spotless white... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabXccddcceecfbXcf
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 18,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: heroic couplets
  • Metre: 1111011100 0101010101 01010011111 1101111101 1101111101 0101010111 1001001100 1101111101 1111111101 0100110101 1101111011 0101111101 0101111111 1100111100 1001011101 0111111101 1011111101 1001100100
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 795
  • Average number of words per stanza: 141
  • Amount of lines: 18
  • 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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