This is an analysis of the poem In Memoriam that begins with:
“He asked life of thee, and thou gavest him a long life, even for ever and ever.”
Life—length of days—the time to work and strive... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: X abcb defe ghXh bfbf bgfg Xici ieXe afef fggg fibi dXaX gifj hfefXjafa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 111011110101110110110 1101010111 00110011001 0001110001 1101110001 10111111001 0111010101 0101010111 0111010101 1101110111 11001110101 1111100101 1101111101 01010010101 0101110101 0111010100 1111010111 1101110001 0101010111 1001010111 0111110011 1011010101 1111001001 0111010101 1101100101 1111010111 0111111101 0111111101 10110111001 1101001111 11010110111 1010111101 1111111101 0111000101 1111100001 1101011101 0101111101 1111110101 1101001111 0101110111 1101010101 1111101111 1001110110 1111100101 1101010010 1101100111 1111011101 11010010101 0011100100 0101111101 1011111101 1101011101 0101110101 1101011100 1111010101 0111010111 1101000101
- Amount of stanzas: 15
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 169
- Average number of words per stanza: 32
- Amount of lines: 57
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (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; life, of, and, no, to, his, him are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words no, of, to are repeated.
The author used the same word life at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:
- summary of In Memoriam;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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