This is an analysis of the poem Dedication that begins with:
Dedication
These to His Memory--since he held them dear, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcdeX fdggdXXbhaeiejcdXiejXafaeehafbfdhkdiki bbbieX Xffffa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,38,6,6,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1010 10010011101 0111011100 1100011101 1101110101 110 1011101 110111011 11000010101 1101010101 11110111000 11110111001 0101110111 01000101001 0110011101 100011111101 1111110100 1101111111 1101010101 0101010001 1011011100 1100010101 1100110101 0101010101 1101110100 10011000101 01010101000 0111110101 11010011101 1101011101 01001010110 1111010001 1111110100 0101010111 1101000100 01001010101 1001101101 1101000111 0101110001 1101010101 0101010101 1011110101 0111010111 0101111000 1111011101 1111110101 01001010011 1111011111 1101011111 0101010 111 01011110001 0101110101 0101110101 0101110101 1111110101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 580
- Average number of words per stanza: 102
- Amount of lines: 56
- 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; who, her, of, dear, to, thee, love, all, thy are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words who, not, break, the are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines endure, thee are repeated).
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- summary of Dedication;
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- idea of the verse;
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