This is an analysis of the poem May Seventeenth that begins with:
Wergeland's statue on May seventeenth
Saw the procession. And as its rear-guard,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXbb cdaee cXXf gg dhXhh ahdccXffdff
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,4,2,5,11,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1001111101 1001011011 11010 11110010110 1101011010 1010010010 1011011110 11100 10010010010 1011010110 10110111110 10111110010 110 10 10110110010 1011010110 10110011110 10110010110 11010 10011010110 1011010110 10110111010 1101110010 10110 111101110010 1011010110 11110000110 11111010110 10110 10010110110 1001010010
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 196
- Average number of words per stanza: 34
- Amount of lines: 32
- Average number of symbols per line: 36 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; that, most, of, our, they are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words never, most are repeated.
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