This is an analysis of the poem In Memory Of E. M. El— K that begins with:
When my parched lips upon thy princely brow,
Placid as tropic mead, as glacier cold, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcdcdcXecefXfXggcgcheheijijkhkXfgfcg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 39,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1111011101 1011011101 0100111111 11110100001 1010110101 0101110101 1011111101 0101010111 1001100111 101111110 1 1101011001 1101000101 1111011101 1111111101 1101010101 1011010101 1100111011 111101110 1 0101011101 0101010001 0111011111 1001110101 1101110100 11110010101 11111101010 11001011111 11110011010 1101110111 1101010011 1111010011 1111011001 0111010101 1101011100 1101000100 10010110101 110110111 1
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1600
- Average number of words per stanza: 290
- Amount of lines: 39
- 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; where, i, or, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words my, a, what, or, ye are repeated.
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