This is an analysis of the poem On The Death Of The Right Honourable The Lord Viscount Bayning that begins with:
Though after Death, Thanks lessen into Praise,
And Worthies be not crown'd with gold, but bayes;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabcddeeccffggXhiijjjjjjgXkk eeaallaakkmmggXj bbhhcceejjffiibXllnnbb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 28,16,22,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1101110001 1100110111 1111011101 1101110100 0101000101 111101110 110101011 110001101 0101010100 1101010100 11010111111 1101011101 10110101001 0100010101 1011100011 0101011111 11001101111 010110111 11011100101 11011101101 110110101 111001110001 0100111101 1001011011 1100111001 0001010101 01010010001 11001111101 0100010101 01111111111 1111011101 1011111101 0111010110 1101011101 0111011100 0101110101 00011101010 01110101010 1101010101 1001011101 1101111101 1111000101 011111101000 111111011 1100110010 0101100101 0101011111 1001011101 10110000100 1001010100 0111010101 1101011111 1011010101 0101011111 0100010101 1111111111 0101011111 0101010111 1011011101 0101111100 1001011111 1101001101 0101010111 1111100101 1101111111 1101111101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 958
- Average number of words per stanza: 168
- Amount of lines: 68
- Average number of symbols per line: 41 (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; of, he, in, by, speak are repeated.
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