This is an analysis of the poem Wendell Phillips that begins with:
WHAT shall we mourn? For the prostrate tree that sheltered the young green wood?
For the fallen cliff that fronted the sea, and guarded the fields...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaa bbbb ccddeecccc aaaabb ffeXggbb hhcchh aaXaaabb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,4,10,6,8,6,8,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 1111101011100111 101011100111001001 10101100100100101 111111110101101 101001111110100101 11110111101100101 1111010110110110111 001001101001111001 101001101011001001 00100100100101101 1100101100101101 10110100110110101 001001110101001101 0010011100100111 1010110111111101101 01001001110101100101 11001001011011001 10101011111100101 10101101000101001 100110010111111011 111101111010011001 10100110101111001 10100100101110101 001010110011101001 111110101011101 10100101011101110 11101111100100100 1100101000100101 1010110111100101 010110101110111 00101011010010101 1101001001111001 101011010110110001 10101010010101 101111100100111 10101101111010101 10101011110111111 1101101010101110 111101101110101 1111001111001100 110100111111111 1011110111011001 0100110100110101101 11001100111010111 101110101111111
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 466
- Average number of words per stanza: 88
- Amount of lines: 45
- Average number of symbols per line: 72 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 14
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; for, that, and, to, of, new, his, no, or, one are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words for, and, there are repeated.
The author used the same word come at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word men at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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