This is an analysis of the poem Ave Atque Vale (In Memory Of Charles Baudelaire) that begins with:

SHALL I strew on thee rose or rue or laurel,
   Brother, on this that was the veil of thee? ... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: abbaccdeede fffXccghdgd hiihXjkllkl Xmmggggiigi gnngeeeeeee heehnnillil ojjonnfeefe heehnnfffff pddphhnffnf faaXggXnnan oXfXnnjddjd oggoddffXff oeeooonjjnj Xoogeenffnf XaaXoXnaana jeejnnaooao occonnbnnbnXhaahjjoddod
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 11,11,11,11,11,11,11,11,11,11,11,11,11,11,11,11,23,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 11111111110 1010110101 11011010101 11010111110 110101011 10111110111 1111011101 11010010101 1101010111 0111000101 111101 11110101010 1000100101001 111101001001 101111001000 1101010101 1111011001 1111001101 1111010100 1111010111 10110111101 111101 110011101010 1011010001 1111011100 101100111110 10110110001 11010001001 1011110011 11110011001 1011010101 101111001111 111111 1101111100 1010111111 1111111111 10110110110 101101100101 1011111111 1101011111 100100010001 1011110101 1101010101 1101011 00010110010 1110111101 11100010001 11110111110 1101111111 1011110101 1101010111 10001011101 1011010011 1011010111 111111 111101111110 1101011111 1111101111 01110101010 1111010100 1001100111 0101000101 1101010101 1101010111 01011011110 101111 11110101110 110001101111 1111110001 10010100010 1010110110 1011111111 1011110101 1111010101 1111011111 11011101110 111101 01111101110 1111010111 1011101101 110100010010 10110010001 11010100011 1101010001 11100010001 1011110011 11010100101 110111 111111101010 1111111101 1110111111 11110111010 10110101010 10111101010 1101111111 1111110111 1111100101 1011010111 1100101 11110101110 1110010111 11101110011 11111111100 1100010011 11001110011 110001100 1101111111 1101001101 1111010100 110101 10111100110 11010111101 11000011111 011011001100 1110011001 11000111111 10001010101 11010111111 1111010011 1101010101 110101 11111101010 11011010101 11110101001 11110111110 1111111111 111110001 101001010110 1101010101 11011001001 01110110110 111111 11000101110 1011010101 10101010101 01110101110 1011110111 1101110101 1100010101 1100011111 11011110101 11011100111 111101 11111111100 1011111111 1101001101 11110110010 100111011111 1000011101 11010010011 11001111001 1100011101 1101010001 1100101 1110100110 1101010101 1011000101 1101110100 1111110101 1111111100 01010101001 1100111101 1101110101 0001010111 111101 11110111010 1101000101 1101001111 111011111010 1011111101 1101111111 0111111100 1001110111 1011010101 1111011111 111011 11011100110 1111111101 1011001001 10010101010 1111110101 10110010011 11010111101 11010101010 10110111110 1111111111 1001010 11110101110 1111010111 1001110101 11010101010 11010101 1001000101 1011001111 1111010101 1111010111 1111110101 110101
  • Amount of stanzas: 18
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 609
  • Average number of words per stanza: 88
  • Amount of lines: 198
  • Average number of symbols per line: 55 (very long strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 8
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; or, and, more, no, from, of, what, some, far, thy, these, to, his, with, that are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words or, the, what, some, not, and, that are repeated.

    The author used the same word and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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