This is an analysis of the poem My Grandmother's Love Letters that begins with:
There are no stars to-night
But those of memory. ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXbc deXXdaX fXgg d XbdfcX hhde
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,7,4,1,6,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111101 110100 1111110010 00110011 1010101 1010011010 0100 110111 00010001 111111 11000111 10010011 11010 001111010011 0101111001 11111 111010101 1111110 0010101 0101010001 110101 1101 11111110101 1101111101 11110101010101 010101010010
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 142
- Average number of words per stanza: 28
- Amount of lines: 26
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word it is repeated.
The author used the same word there at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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