This is an analysis of the poem In Memoriam that begins with:
TWO watchers sit beside the dead;
From hour to hour no prayer is said,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaaaXX bbbbXX cccccXcddddXddcdcXddd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,21,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11010101 0100101101 11111101 11110101 11111100 1 11011101 11011101 11110001 01110001 01111100 1 11011111 11111111 11110101 01011101 01010101 1 01011101 11010101 01010101 01110111 11011101 1 11100101 01011101 01110101 01011101 01010101 1 01010100 11111111 01110001
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 331
- Average number of words per stanza: 63
- Amount of lines: 33
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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- summary of In Memoriam;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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