This is an analysis of the poem On The Death Of Sir Tho: Peltham that begins with:

Meerly for man's death to mourne
Were to repine that man was borne.... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XaXXbbXXaXccccXdeeXXffeeXXXXggXaXXdd
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 36,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1011101 00101111 11111110 11100001 11011111 11011110 11111101 10010001 010100111 11011101 10111101 01010111 10110101 11011101 01110100 11010111 10110111 11010100 101011111 11110011 11010101 100101111 11010101 01010101 1111111 11101101 11001101 01111000 11111001 11110111 11111101 11010001 11011111 11010001 11110101 111110101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1296
  • Average number of words per stanza: 245
  • Amount of lines: 36
  • Average number of symbols per line: 35 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to, sleepe are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word sleepe is repeated.

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