This is an analysis of the poem Rev. Dr. James W. Alexander, that begins with:
Pastor of the Fifth Avenue Church, New York, died at the Virginia
Springs, July, 1859.... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XX abccdefgXfgheiaebXhjiggbXgdajcfbjkjjbedc XkX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,40,3,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 10001101111110010 01011 0110110001 111011 0101 01010101001 1101110111 0111011111 1001010101 110111 1101 1101011101 1001000101 000111 1101 10010111000 01001000101 01110010100 000101 1111 0101010101 10001010001 1101100100 1011000111 0101010101 111101 1101 010011101001 1111010101 1001100100 1101010111 1011011101 1000111 0101 1001011101 1111011001 0101010101 1100011101 1001001101 1011010100 0111011101 1101010101 1101011101 0110011101 1111010110
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 561
- Average number of words per stanza: 100
- Amount of lines: 46
- Average number of symbols per line: 36 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; with is repeated.
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- summary of Rev. Dr. James W. Alexander,;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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