This is an analysis of the poem Lines On The Death Of Edward John Trelawny that begins with:

LAST high star of the years whose thunder
Still men’s listening remembrance hears,... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: abbaab cddXcd ceXcce accaac bffbbf ghhgghXceecce
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,13,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 111000110 111000101 11101100 101011010 111100110 11110111 1110001010 11100111 11110101 1001001110 111001110 11101111 101011110 10111111 10100110 111111010 111001110 11110101 111001110 101100101 11101001 1011101110 111101010 100010101 1001001110 111001001 1001101001 1101001110 101011110 100111100 10001101010 100101101 11111101 111111010 111001010 100100111 101111110 100100111 11100111 1001001110 1011001110 101000111
  • Amount of stanzas: 7
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 239
  • Average number of words per stanza: 45
  • Amount of lines: 42
  • Average number of symbols per line: 39 (medium-length 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; of is repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word peers is repeated.

    The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase lover connects the lines.

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