This is an analysis of the poem In Memory Of The Unknown Poet, Robert Boardman Vaughn that begins with:

But the essential advantage for a poet is not, to have a beautiful world with which to deal: it is to be able to see beneath both beauty and...

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  • Rhyme scheme: aX AaA aaA aaA aaA aaa XaaaA
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,3,3,3,3,3,5,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: limerick
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1001001010100101010010101000010010111011000101010101010 11100 0101001110010 010101011100 01010101010 100101111110 101010101010010 0101001110010 11011101110 110101101001000 01010101010 110011100110 010010101010010 0101001110010 1011100111110100 0101010100110010 101010101010 111110100100 01011011100100 0101011110010 01010101010
  • Amount of stanzas: 7
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 161
  • Average number of words per stanza: 30
  • Amount of lines: 27
  • Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
  • 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; to, and, it are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word it is repeated.

    The poet repeated the same word glory at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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