This is an analysis of the poem Grief's Harmonics that begins with:

At evening, when the lank and rigid trees,
To the mere forms of their sweet day-selves drying,... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XabaXbacXbdbcXbbXdXdX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 21,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1101011101 00110111110 11011111101 1100111010 0110001100 11011111111 11110111010 1011101101 0101110100 1011000101 110110111111 1110110101 1111110110 1111000101 1101001 1101000101 1111111111 1111111101 10110101110 11110001101 1011111000
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 909
  • Average number of words per stanza: 170
  • Amount of lines: 21
  • Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • 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; most is repeated.

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  • summary of Grief's Harmonics;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
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