This is an analysis of the poem Poem In Memoriam T. S. Eliot that begins with:
I'd been out the night before & hadn't seen the papers or the telly
& the next day in a café someone told me you were dead...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbXX c cc bXXaadeccc ed eeX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,1,2,10,2,3,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 10101011010101010 0110011111101 101100100101011 110011101010110 11101101 1011011101101 1101010010110 1011101101110101010101 1111011 01010001011001110 100101110101 1010010001010 100111010110010010 010100100110 1010010110111010011010 011101010101010110101010 011001010101 11010 1010 110 110 110 1101010101010011010010111
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 184
- Average number of words per stanza: 34
- Amount of lines: 23
- Average number of symbols per line: 47 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; in, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.
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