This is an analysis of the poem In Memoriam - R. M. Stalker that begins with:
As I go down the highway,
And through the village street,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcbXdXd cefegfhf hiaiXfhf gabehehe XiXiXdXXXgfdfgfgf
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,17,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111011 110101 1101010 1010101 0111110 111111 1101110 111111 1111110 111101 1001110 11001001 1111010 110111 0111110 010001 1101010 110111 1101011 011101 11110011 110101 0111010 1100101 0111010 111101 101110111 011101 1011110 100101 1101010 111101 1111110 101111 101101110 110111 0101010 111111 10101111 0011100 01011111 1011111 11110101 011111 11011101 1100101 101010101 010011
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 236
- Average number of words per stanza: 45
- Amount of lines: 48
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- 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; and is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words i, ghosts, and are repeated.
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