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

You that affright with lamentable notes
The servants from their beef, whose hungry throats... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: aaaaXaXXbbXbbbXXbbccXXddcceefXffgghiXXffhh XXhieejjXbaa
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 42,12,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 1110001001 0100111101 101101010 1101110111 1101110110 1100011111 1101011110 1101011110 1100111111 0110010101 0101011101 1101111101 1001011101 1101010101 0111100101 1100010101 1101101101 0101110001 1111011101 1101010111 010010101010 1111010111 1111011111 1101110111 11001111111 0011000101 010101101101 010101010 1111011101 1101111110 0110010111 1100100111 1111010101 1101111111 0101011101 1101110100 11010100101 1100101110 0101011100 1101100111 1101110101 1101010111 1101011110 0101010101 1111010111 0111000100 010111101010 01010011010 1101111111 1111110101 1001100011 0101010111 0110011100 1101011111
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1174
  • Average number of words per stanza: 214
  • Amount of lines: 55
  • 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; you, so, his are repeated.

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