This is an analysis of the poem One Woman's Memory that begins with:
Here is a lock of his soft, dark hair,
And here are the letters he wrote to me.... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcdcd efefgaga bhbhhfhf iaiXhjhj ikikbdbd Xieiedkdk
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,9,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 100100111 1110101101 1010111101 0100101 110011001 1011111101 1110100111 111111 1100100101 111101001 110111101 111101 100100101 0010100101 1010110101 110101 1101110110 101111111 110010111 00100101 1010101111 1100110101 010110101 101101 101111011 0010111101 111110111 00100101 1111110111 1111111111 110100101 1100101 110111111 1010111001 110111011 110101 0111110101 0111110101 1111111101 1111101 1111110101 111001001011 111010111 001101 110110101 110100111 1110110101 1100101
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 301
- Average number of words per stanza: 65
- Amount of lines: 53
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (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; here, and, not, i, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, i are repeated.
The author used the same word he at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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