This is an analysis of An Elegy Upon The Immature Loss Of The Most Vertuous Lady Anne Rich by Henry King.
I envy not thy mortal triumphs, Death,
(Thou enemy to Vertue as to Breath)…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aabbccddddeeddddffggdXccbbbbXhhXhhiijjddkcXXaaXdeXcceXbbcchhggjjXXbbdXddXXddccck
- Stanza lengths: 80,
- Metre: 1101110101 110001101 1111011101 0101011101 0110110011 1101011111 11001011111 1001011101 0010111101 1111010101 1101101011 0011010111 0111000101 1111000101 1101011111 01011100011 1101010011 10110101001 1101111101 1010001011 1111010011 10010011101 0101111101 1101011101 1110010101 10001011100 11010100111 1101011111 1101011110 011110100 1101011101 11010101010 1001010000 1001100111 1101010101 111001101 1101110011 1101111101 1111000101 1111010101 0101100100 0111010001 10011001010 100010101110 1101110011 1001010001 1101010110 0101100111 1011011111 1101010100 1111001000 1101100011 11001101101 1101011011 1001010111 1010010101 1001100011 1001000111 1101011101 1111111101 1011011101 1011010111 1101011011 100101010 1011010110 1011011110 1111011101 011101010101 1101011101 1011010110 1011111110 0111101001 1111011100 1001010001 1101010111 1101011101 1101011011 0101110101 1001001101 1101011100
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 80
Repeated words/phrases
and, of, thy
Anaphora
the
