This is an analysis of the poem The Forgotten that begins with:
He shone in the senate, the camp, and the grove,
The mirror of manhood, the darling of love. ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaaa bb cc ccXbb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,2,2,5,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 11001001101 01001101001 11101001001 11101101101 11011011011 1101101010111 101001010011 01001001001 1010010011011 11001010101 01011001101 101001001001
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 115
- Average number of words per stanza: 23
- Amount of lines: 12
- Average number of symbols per line: 48 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
The author used the same word and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of The Forgotten;
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- idea of the verse;
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