This is an analysis of the poem N. P. Rogers that begins with:

Rogers, will not future story
Tell thy glorious fame?... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abab cdcd cece adaa fgfg hgXg adad fdXdXhehe
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 10011010 111001 10101010 11101 11111010 01101 10101110 10101 01101010 10111 01101010 10101 01101110 11111 00101010 10100 11111010 01101 11101010 11111 11100010 00101 10111100 10101 111010010 10101 11101110 11101 11100110 110111 10101100 001001 10101010 10101 11101010 10101
  • Amount of stanzas: 9
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 111
  • Average number of words per stanza: 20
  • Amount of lines: 36
  • Average number of symbols per line: 27 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 5
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and is repeated.

    The author used the same words of, thou at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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  • summary of N. P. Rogers;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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