This is an analysis of the poem A Memory that begins with:
You are not with me though the Spring is here!
And yet it seemed to-day as if the Spring... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab c dcd be be eae a fdfd fgfg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,1,3,2,2,3,1,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 11101100101 11010110001 0011101101 1100011100 11010111011 1101011001 0011010101 0101010111 01010101010 1010101101 11010101010 0101000101 0101000101 0101011101 010101010001 1001010101 1100111101 11110110101 0111001111 1101110101 11010011101 1101010111 1101011100 11111101001
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 112
- Average number of words per stanza: 21
- Amount of lines: 27
- Average number of symbols per line: 37 (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; of, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.
The author used the same word you at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of A Memory;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
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