This is an analysis of the poem After Looking Into Carlyles Reminiscences that begins with:

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THREE MEN lived yet when this dead man was young... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: X abbaabbaccdeed X dffddffdaaghhg
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,14,1,14,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: limerick
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 1 1111101111 1111011101 11110100101 1011010101 1101011101 1101110111 1111111111 1111011101 0101010101 1011010101 1101011101 0101011101 1101101101 11001011111 1 1101111111 1111110101 11111100111 1101111101 1001111111 1111111001 11000111101 1111111011 11010100001 0111110111 11001000001 0111010110 11010010110 01001011111
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 326
  • Average number of words per stanza: 61
  • Amount of lines: 31
  • Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
  • 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; to, its are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words whose, and are repeated.

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