This is an analysis of the poem Georgic On Memory that begins with:
Make your daily monument the Ego,
use a masochist's epistemology...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Xaab cccc deed bffb XcXf fXff gccg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 1110100010 10100010100 01111100 1101010101 0100110011 01000101001 010110101 10111001 1101010101 11001110 0101011010 010101101 001010101 0100100110 1010100010 1010110101 0111010001 110101010 11010000 10101101001 0110110101 011101010 01001011001 110101101 010010101 1101001011 0101010101 11001011010
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 147
- Average number of words per stanza: 24
- Amount of lines: 28
- Average number of symbols per line: 36 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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