This is an analysis of the poem In Memoriam A. H. H.: 50. Be Near Me When My Light Is Low that begins with:
Be near me when my light is low,
When the blood creeps, and the nerves prick... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abba cddc effe egge
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01111101 10111011 11010101 11010101 011101001 01011101 1101011001 11010101 01111101 110101001 11111111 11110111 01111101 01010101 11011101 01100101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 142
- Average number of words per stanza: 28
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (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, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
The author used the same word be at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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