This is an analysis of the poem Sacred To The Memory Of “unknown” that begins with:
Oh, the wild black swans fly westward still,
While the sun goes down in glory—... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababccccdCefefghgHgH edXdeceCdc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 20,10,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101111101 10111010 101110111 1101110 0110111 001001110 1010110111 001101110 00100100101 101101110 1010110111 10111111 1010110111 1011111 0100111111 10111110 1111111101 11110010 1011111100 11110010 1011100101 10111010 111111101 01001110 1010100101 10111110 1011100111 101101110 1011101101 101101110
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 616
- Average number of words per stanza: 122
- Amount of lines: 30
- Average number of symbols per line: 40 (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; he is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
The author used the same word oh at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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