This is an analysis of the poem On The Proposal To Erect A Monument In England To Lord Byron that begins with:
The grass of fifty Aprils hath waved green
Above the spent heart, the Olympian head,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababccdbbX eeeeffXbXa XghgiiajXa agageebhhb Xedekklbbl jljXmXkggk Xmhmhhhlffl
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,10,10,10,10,10,11,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 0101010111 01011001001 0111001101 100111111 11011111010 011111010110 1101010101 10110011001 1111010101 10111111100 1101010111 11111100001 0111111101 10111100101 1001110101 11101010101 10100111010 0111111101 1101010101 11001110001 1111111011 1111111101 1101110101 1101010111 0100110101 1100010101 1101010101 10010011101 0101110110 1111110101 11001011101 1111001101 0101010101 1011010111 1111010101 1101010101 0111110111 1101000111 1111110101 10111010001 1100010100 01010001101 1101010101 0111010101 10101010101 01010100101 0101011101 0101011101 0101011101 0111000101 1100110101 01111101011 1111101111 0101010100 0101010101 1101010100 0101001100 1111011101 1101011101 0011000111 0111010101 1111101011 1011111100 1110110101 1001000011 1100111111 1100110111 0101011101 11010110101 0001010100
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 441
- Average number of words per stanza: 80
- Amount of lines: 71
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (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; had, ', his are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.
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