This is an analysis of the poem Said Grenfell To My Spirit that begins with:

Said Grenfell to my spirit, "You’ve been writing very free
Of the charms of other places, and you don’t remember me. ... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabbcXddeecX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 110011010010101 001010101110101 111010101110101 111010100011101 111011010011101 1110101111111010 1110011011110101 101010101010111 001110101011111 111010111011111 111011110111001 1011101111111011
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 793
  • Average number of words per stanza: 149
  • Amount of lines: 12
  • Average number of symbols per line: 65 (very long strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 12
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; you, and, on are repeated.

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