This is an analysis of the poem John Ericsson Day Memorial, 1918 that begins with:
INTO the gulf and the pit of the dark night, the cold night, there is a man goes into the dark and the cold and when he comes back to his people he...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: a X X X XXa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,1,1,1,3,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 00011010011011100110001101111110010111000111010100010010101010101010111110001001010010 1011011101110010101101011010010110010110110101000111101101011100111001110010011101011111111 0101101011001011100111011010100111001011101 01000101101101111001110111111000111001011111011011001011001110010 1010111101111111101101010110011001011101111 011101101111111001111011111101001000110011111011101110110011010111111
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 276
- Average number of words per stanza: 56
- Amount of lines: 6
- Average number of symbols per line: 276 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 56
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, of, his, man, he, with, from, in, for, no, there, night, on are repeated.
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