This is an analysis of the poem In Memorium : Adam Lindsay Gordon that begins with:
AT rest! Hard by the margin of that sea
Whose sounds are mingled with his noble verse,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbcdXeeefXgcheicbdccecfcjch kbbXbjXalgcialjcekfXlhXXXbXb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 28,28,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1111010011 1111000101 1101110101 0111001101 1111011100 01010100010 1101111111 0011011011 0111010101 0101000100 1101111111 0101010111 1101110101 11010111001 01110101001 1101010101 0101010111 1111010111 01010010100 0101011101 0101010111 0101000101 1111111111 1101010111 1101011101 0101011111 0111000111 110101 1011 0101110101 11001010101 0101000100 1111111101 0101010101 0101011011 1111010111 0101011101 1100010111 0101010111 10011100101 0101010111 11010001001 0111011101 0101000101 1101010101 1101111011 1101000101 0101010111 0011010100 1100011101 0101110101 1101110011 1101111111 11110100101 0101010101 1101010101
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1162
- Average number of words per stanza: 219
- Amount of lines: 56
- Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
- 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; who, to, of, and, human are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word to is repeated.
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