This is an analysis of the poem To The Memory Of My Dear Daughter In Law, Mrs. Mercy Bradstreet, Who Deceased Sept. 6. 1669. In The that begins with:
And live I still to see Relations gone,
And yet survive to sound this wailing tone;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbXXccccdXcceeddffggggccddccdd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 32,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1111010101 1101010101 11010111001 110101111 1101010111 1111011110 111110101 1111111111 1111100101 1100110111 1111110101 0110010100 1111000111 1011110101 1101011101 1111011011 1101110110 0101110101 1111010111 1101011101 0111011101 0111100101 1101010001 1100110001 1001011101 1101110101 1111010111 01010111100 1111110101 010111101 111111100 1100011111
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1373
- Average number of words per stanza: 269
- Amount of lines: 32
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- 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; to is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, i are repeated.
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