This is an analysis of the poem A Shakespeare Memorial that begins with:
Why should we lodge in marble or in bronze
Spirits more vast than earth, or sea, or sky?... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcdcdaeXeff
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: Shakespearean sonnet
- Metre: 1111010101 1011111111 1001010011 1111010101 100100001010 0101110101 10010101010 1000110101 0110011101 1101000111 10111111000 1101110001 1100010001 1101110001
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 584
- Average number of words per stanza: 98
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 41 (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; or is repeated.
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