This is an analysis of the poem In Memorabilia Mortis that begins with:
I MARKED the slow withdrawal of the year.
Out on the hills the scarlet maples shone— ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbaa bbabb bccb deedd eedfg bfgbbhhbb hhbij kijj ejjle jjefd fddf Xmmee mmeba babX khhkk hhXej Xljh
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,4,5,5,9,5,4,5,5,4,5,5,4,5,5,4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1101010001 1101010101 0111000101 0101110101 1101011111 1100011101 0101110111 1101110101 1101110101 1111011101 1101011111 1001011101 1011011101 1100010101 1101110001 1001100111 0101110111 1111110111 0101110101 1111111001 11111111001 1100010101 1111110101 1111110101 0111100110 1101011001 010010100111 10001011011 0101010111 0111011111 0101011111 1111010111 1110010101 1111010101 1101111101 0101010110 1111110101 1011011101 1011110111 0111010101 0101010101 0101010101 1001010001 1101010101 11110101011 11010111000 1111010101 11111101011 1111011101 1001010101 11011101111 1011010111 1111100111 0111110100 1111010101 1101110101 1111101110 1101101010 10011111010 11010100111 1110011101 01110101110 11011101010 1111111111 1111111001 1101010101 1101000101 1111110111 1111111111 111111010011 1100110111 0101110111 1101011101 1111010111 0111010101 1111110111 0111110101 0100011100 1111111111 0101111011 1011110100 1101011100 0111010101 1111111101
- Amount of stanzas: 17
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 215
- Average number of words per stanza: 42
- Amount of lines: 96
- Average number of symbols per line: 37 (medium-length strings)
- 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; grey, and, my, o are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, a, for are repeated.
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- summary of In Memorabilia Mortis;
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- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
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