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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