This is an analysis of the poem In Memoriam A. H. H.: 121. Sad Hesper O'Er The Buried Sun that begins with:
Sad Hesper o'er the buried sun
And ready, thou, to die with him,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbaaccadeed bffbXbddb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,9,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110100101 11010101 11011101 11010101 01010001 01010101 110000101 11010001 11110101 11011101 010101001 01110101 01010101 11010001 11010101 11010001 11011101 11010101 11101111 11011101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 269
- Average number of words per stanza: 44
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 40 (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; and is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.
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