This is an analysis of the poem For E. Mcc that begins with:

Gone while your tastes were keen to you,
Gone where the grey winds call to you,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabXXaccB bXXXd eedcffgg XXhBh
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,5,8,5,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11110101 11011101 11110101 100111110 101111 11111 11111100 11111100 11110101 110101 11110 111111010111 1110000111 01 1100101101 11110111 1100010110 1111001100 1110011101 1101000111 1110110001 0111111111 10 100111110 1001110101 11110101 0101111111
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 244
  • Average number of words per stanza: 46
  • Amount of lines: 27
  • Average number of symbols per line: 35 (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; you, your, as, of are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word gone is repeated.

    The author used the same word gone at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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

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  • summary of For E. Mcc;
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  • history of its creation;
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