This is an analysis of the poem In Memoriam~ -- Alice Fane Gunn Stenhouse that begins with:
The grand, authentic songs that roll
Across grey widths of wild-faced sea,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab cdcd cece fafa gggg gcgc hihi jcjc bbkb clcl fafa hihi Xeie mcmc gngn nmnm clcl eeee mfmf Xcec icic eoeo iaia pXpm bckf pcpc ffff boXo qbqX hXhe mfmf cbcb rcrcXmomo
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 01010111 01110111 01010001 110101 11110111 01010011 010101001 010101 11010101 110100101 01010101 010111 11010101 11011101 11011101 110111 11011101 11111101 01011101 010001 01010101 111101101 11110101 010101 11010101 11010101 11010111 010001 11010101 110011101 01010101 010101 11010101 01011101 111100100 110001 01111111 01110101 01010101 010111 010000101 11111100 11010101 111101 011011111 11110101 01000101 110101 01010110 11011111 11010101 1100111 11110101 11011101 01100111 110101 11011111 11111101 11111101 000111 11111001 01110101 11110101 001101 111101010 01010111 010001110 010001 11011101 010101111 10010111 010101 01000111 01010101 11010111 111100 10011100 11001101 11010111 010101 11010101 11010101 11110111 111110 01010111 010111001 11010101 011100 111111001 01010101 01010001 110101 11011101 11011101 01010101 011100 10110101 01110100 01000100 111111 11110101 010101110 111101011 1101010 11111111 11010111 11110101 010101 11011101 11010101 0101100 011100 010011001 11010101 11010101 111101 11011111 011101000 01000101 110001 11010111 11110101 11011101 111110 10010101 01111101 11000101 110101 11000101 11111101 11010101 110101 11011101 11110111 11010101 010101
- Amount of stanzas: 34
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 133
- Average number of words per stanza: 25
- Amount of lines: 136
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (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; and, of, in are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words a, the are repeated.
The author used the same words the, and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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