This is an analysis of the poem Cora that begins with:
Of Cora, once so dearly ours,
Would mournful memory sing; ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcdcd efeX Xede caca ghgh gdgd fdfd gfbf ifif fdfd iaia dhdhXcici
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01011101 1101001 011111010 0110001 11011101 111011 11010111 110101 0010101001 111111 10110001 010101 110100110 010101 110111001 110001 11010101 110101 10011101 010001 01010001 110111 010010101 110101 01110101 0100101 11010101 110101 11000101 110001 01011101 010101 11110001 110101 111101001 001101 101101011 010100 11010101 1000101 100011101 111101 11010011 010101 11110101 110101 11110101 010101 010101011 111001 11011101 110101 10011001 111101 110011111 111101
- Amount of stanzas: 13
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 144
- Average number of words per stanza: 25
- Amount of lines: 56
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; with is repeated.
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