This is an analysis of the poem Sonnet Xliv. Veiled Memories. that begins with:
OF love that was, of friendship in the days
Of youth long gone, yet oft remembered still,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbaabbacdcdee
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 0111010001 0111110101 1111011001 100100101 110111011 0111111011 0011011101 1101111111 1101110101 1101001111 1111010101 01100011111 0111010101 0101011111
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 611
- Average number of words per stanza: 117
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (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; of, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words of, ah are repeated.
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More information about poems by Christopher Pearse Cranch
- Analysis of Sonnet Xlix. J.R.L. (On His Homeward Voyage) 1.
- Analysis of Sonnet Xlv. Tennyson. 1.
- Analysis of Sonnet Xlvi. Tennyson 2.
