This is an analysis of the poem In Memoriam that begins with:
Beauty (they called her) wasn't a maid
Of many things in the world afraid.... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaaaXXaabbaacc aaddd eeffddgg hheeXXiiaaiiffjjj aaeeaakkXd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,5,8,17,10,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101101001 010100101 110011111 110010111 110010111 1101100101 110011111 0011101101 11011111 111100111 1111001101 1100101001 1100101001 1110101101 010011001 010101001 10101111 101101111 1010110101 110110111 100100101 011101111 110111011 10110101001 1101101001 010101111 1110110101 111101001 010011111 1110100101 1101100101 10110101 10100110 100100101 010100101 0101001001 0100110101 001011101 0010101101 110100101 0100100101 110011101 1010010101 0100100101 110110101 1101100101 011101011 1010100101 1010101011 100110101 10110111 101111101 1111111001 1110111101
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 418
- Average number of words per stanza: 81
- Amount of lines: 54
- Average number of symbols per line: 38 (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; she, and, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words she, in, gone, of are repeated.
If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:
- summary of In Memoriam;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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