This is an analysis of the poem From: Preludes For Memnon that begins with:
LXII
I read the primrose and the sea...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: X aBcBbBab XDXDefgf caXAeAaA chehgaXa gXgeecec ijejbjej dDdDkdfD iidieili elfl X Xff aaX bfXXgke
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,4,1,3,3,7,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1 11011101 101010 11110101 101010 1101111001 101010 110100011 1101010 111111 101001 010110101 101001 110101000101 100010 111101111 111010 111101 1001 010101010 101 010000111110 101 011101 101 111101 1111 1110101 11001 1111010 0101 1110010 1111 110111 1000 1110101 1111 1110111 1101 111011 0101 11011011 11111 110111 1111 1011111 1101 101111 1001 111111 1111 010001 1111 10101110 111 111101 1111 1111110 101 010101011 101 111101 10101 10111111 1101 1101010 101 0111010 111 1 110010101 01100001010 0011010101 1101111101 1101010101 0011001001 11010101010 10110010001 01010111010 0101111101 010010101010 0101
- Amount of stanzas: 15
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 144
- Average number of words per stanza: 29
- Amount of lines: 82
- Average number of symbols per line: 25 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, i, in, know, to, thus are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words i, and are repeated.
The author used the same word thus at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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