This is an analysis of the poem In Piam Memoriam that begins with:
1
Created purely from glass the saint stands, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: X aabb X ccdd X XXee
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,4,1,4,1,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: rondeau
- Metre: 1 0101001011 0100101101 1010001001 0101100101 1 001101110 10001011101 0101101101 01010001101 1 01011001101 1011110101 010101001 1001100011
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 85
- Average number of words per stanza: 14
- Amount of lines: 17
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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- summary of In Piam Memoriam;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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