This is an analysis of the poem In Memoryt Of Saretta Deakin that begins with:

_Who Died on October 25th_, 1899.
THERE was a day,... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: X aabbXaccdba dddbbefebbddf cdddgchhiiaabbjeeaccj akkaaccggllmX ggaabbmmmmddffaakX gldggdaaddaannj
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,11,13,21,13,18,15,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: heroic couplets
  • Metre: 11101011 1101 0100101 1001011111 11110110110 1101110100 110001 111111 1101010101 0101011111 11011111101 1101110111 1111010001 0111010101 1101010001 01000010100 0011111100 1100010101 1101010110 1101111111 0111000101 1100000111 01001110111 1001010101 1101010100 011101 1001110101 11010101111 010111 1101011111 1111110111 1001110101 1001010001 01010010111 0101010111 1011111101 0111111011 0111010111 1111010101 1111110100 1110011101 1001001111 1011010101 01001100010 0111110001 0100110100 1001010101 0111011111 1101110101 1011101101 1111111111 1101110111 1011101111 1011101111 00100010101 101110010111 1111000101 1101011111 11011100101 1011110011 11011010101 1101110101 11111100101 1101110011 1101010100 1010110111 01000110101 10110111111 00110111101 1101011111 10010001111 11011011010 010101010010 1111011101 11110111101 0101010101 11011101110 1111 0101011101 0101011111 01001010011 11111111011 01001001 01010010101 1001000101 1111010001 1111010101 1011010101 0011011101 0101110111 1101011101 1101110100
  • Amount of stanzas: 7
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 561
  • Average number of words per stanza: 105
  • Amount of lines: 92
  • Average number of symbols per line: 42 (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; and, with, of, her, there, for, not, to, she are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, the are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines day is repeated).

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

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