This is an analysis of the poem Lines In Memory Of Edmund Morris that begins with:

Dear Morris--here is your letter--
Can my answer reach you now?...

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  • Rhyme scheme: ababcdedfgaghcXc XceXfdfdaaii cXXdeaaggXded aaadaXeajXdd cckXejdlXjjdccbX dalmn lcXadd ecec ofof ipipmemXXfjXXheeamXjdgmcdigjcdmdkgcgcqcddgh ffjjoollddl lBaX hdhdrrqqblBhhbblclcdeXegXXabiasttXjljljdjdiseblb gjgnjjdageuuqebebpdgphjhXccudg gckduln
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 16,12,13,12,16,5,6,4,4,43,11,4,48,30,28,12,19,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11010110 1110111 1111110 100101 111010010 110010100 111110110 100111 01000101011 111101 11111010 1011 0011010 01100101 1001110 101001 11010100 1101011 1100010 011111 11111011 0111101 1101110011 0100101 0110010 11001010 11111110 11000010 1110111100 0010110 10111000 100001 11001010 0111010 1100110010 11001110 1011001010 11011100 1001101 1111010 0010001 1111110110 10111010 1111100110 01001011 10111010 011010010 11101010 0110110010 101001010 011110100 01001010 00110010 11011100111 101111001 101011100111 110100110010 01001110010 110111101110010 111010111111000 010 10101001100011000 10101010001111 0101100101 100110100101 111100010010 111011000011 1110011 1101001000010 111010101100 0100100011010 01010101101001 010010111100010 0100101 110111010 10000100011 010001010 10011110010 110101110010010 01010101010 0110101 0010101 11111100 00011 01111001 111101 1011100101 0000101 111011010 110111 101010110 010101 111011011 01001110 10011011 1101001 001001110 1110111 11101010 01101100 001001100 01101 101000110 01011010 10101010 100111 1110101 1010010 111011010 111010 0010101 01011 1110100 0110010 111001 1011 101011 10110 0011 11010 100001 0101110 01010011 101110 111 110011 11011 10100100 10110 101011 11010 1010101 1011111 1110101 1111111 110101 00101101 100101 011001 1101001 111110001 1001010 1101010 1100101 1010111100 0110101 101111 11001010 111111 111110 1101101 00101011 11100101 101001 1100101 1101010 1100101 0110101 0011011 10101111 01011100101 0101110101 1010010111 1111010101 10100101101 11001010 0101010 11001100 0101010 1101110 010010100 010011100 1111010 11100101 1011010010 1001110 0101011 1010010011 1110011 01001010 0010011011 11010010 01111011 11010010 111010100 01111010 1010101100 100001010 110110010 011010011 011111010 111111 1010011010 11100101 110110001 0101111101 01000100101 0011011101 11100100110 110100100100 01110110011 10010111010 11011101011 10110110110 1011001101 1001100111 0100010101 1001111010 1010000111 10110001010 0101010101 0101110101 0111110101 01001101001 1111001101 0101010001 111111011110 1110111001 010010111011 11010011111 01010011010 0100010001 0100110101 00110100101 1101011111 1001010101 1001010101 01101101010 1111010101 10011010111 1000111001 0101011101 0011101011 100110101 1101011110 1110110101 1101010101 010110101110 1101011101 0011011001 11011100110 11110010101 01010111010 1101011101 01011100010 11101101010 0010101010010 111010001 0011010010110 1001011011 0100011110 1110110001 11011001010 10110001010 1010011111 11010110011 10101001010 1101001111 11011101101 111011101 0101010101 010001110101 00111101010 11010011111 1111110101 0101110010110 011101110010 0111010101 11010101111 11000101110 0101010100 11010011010 1100010111 100010010011 1100110001 1011101001 1101010101 1001000100 10111010001 0101010100101 1001010101 10101101010 1101010111
  • Amount of stanzas: 23
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 454
  • Average number of words per stanza: 84
  • Amount of lines: 289
  • Average number of symbols per line: 35 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, you, of, his, her, he, love, that are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, nothing, when, the, he are repeated.

    The author used the same words dear, how at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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