This is an analysis of the poem The Great Minimum that begins with:
It is something to have wept as we have wept,
It is something to have done as we have done, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab cccc dede XXefe dgXgXfbfb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,5,9,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 00100111111 00100111111 00100111111 1101110101 00100110101 1101110101 001001100111 1101110101 01111110001 1101010101 11110001001 00101110101 0110110011 10 1001010111 00100010101 00100010101 00101011101 11011011010 00101011101 001000100010 111111111 111111111 10101111111 10100010010
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 186
- Average number of words per stanza: 36
- Amount of lines: 25
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; have, it, something, to, of, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word it is repeated.
The author used the same words it, to at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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