This is an analysis of the poem The Valley Of The Shadow that begins with:
There were faces to remember in the Valley of the Shadow,
There were faces unregarded, there were faces to forget; ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcbdece Xcccfcac dcecghah ijejdcae ccfcXkak ilXldbab clclegag XlclgkakXcdfdggag
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,8,8,17,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1010001000100011 101010001010001 10100111110101010 101010101110101 1110101110101010 10100011011000101 1011100011101010 111110101110100 101101111011100 001110110010111 1010001110100010 101010100011101 1010101011111110 11110101110111 1010101000100011 111011101110111 1011101000100010 101001000010001 1100101011100010 01010101001101 1011101011101011 111110111110101 10101110000100011 001010100110011 110101010101110 101001101010101 110101010100010 101100101010011 1010101111111010 101010100110011 1010001000100011 1110101000100101 1010011011101010 101010101110101 111110011101010 01011001111001 1011101000101000 111010101010001 1010011000100011 110100101111101 1011101010100010 101001101110101 1110101010101010 101010100111101 1110111010100010 101010101010001 1010001000100011 101110000010111 10101100001000010 101010101110111 110101010100010 101111101110111 1010111111101010 101110101111101 1010011000100011 101010101011101 1111001010101010 101110101010001 1010101101101010 101010101111101 1010101000101010 101010100011101 1010101000100011 11010101110101 1101111111111010 101010101011011 1010111110101110 101011100111101 1010001110111010 101010101010101 1110011000100011 101010101010101
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 504
- Average number of words per stanza: 90
- Amount of lines: 72
- Average number of symbols per line: 62 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 11
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; there, faces, of, they, and, older, in, or are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words there, and are repeated.
The author used the same word there at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase there connects the lines.
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