This is an analysis of the poem The Tragic Death Of The Rev. A.H. Mackonochie that begins with:
Friends of humanity, of high and low degree,
I pray ye all come listen to me;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaaX bbcc XdXc eedd eXcc Xdcc eeaa aacc cccc bbfX ggff cchh ddii ddaa XXcc eeeeXccbb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 100100011101 111111001 110100101 0101001101010100 1110100010011 1000011011 0110110010010010 1010101001010 111101001000101 1101010111110 1110100101011001010 010101111101 1111100110101 01011101110111 01010101111 11111001101 010101100101 001100010 101110110110 11101011110101 111010011011101 01010110111111001 11111010111101 1111111101 110101010101011 10111011001001 1100011100101 110100100100101 11101001001 10101101001 10100010100101 111101011010001 11011111001 11100110101 101110010101000111 001010110101 11010101010100 011101111101 101010010101101101 01101010110101 101011111001 1010111110111 10110100111011 10111101111 1101010010110110011 111101110101 11010100111 010011010011111 11100100101101 10101110101 01000010111 10101010101 101010111 0110101111101 1010101101001 111101011 1010111100 11011001100100100 101111110011 011110101010101 11010101010010101 01011110111 110101001110101 11001010001001101 10101111001101 1010111000101 1110111010101010 1010111001110111
- Amount of stanzas: 17
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 220
- Average number of words per stanza: 41
- Amount of lines: 68
- Average number of symbols per line: 54 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 10
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, for, his, and, they, him are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words from, and are repeated.
The author used the same word and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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