This is an analysis of the poem What Have We All Forgotten? that begins with:
WHAT have we all forgotten, at the break of the seventh year?
With a nation born to the ages and a Bad Time borne on its bier!... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbcc ddeeff ggbbgg hheeii
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111101010100101 00101001010111101 1010110111001 1011010100111 101001101011001 1111101010100101 1100010010111 1101010100111 1010010101011 10100101001001 110100101001010 1111101000001010 111010100100111 111001001011101111 11100111010100101 10010101011001 1110101101111011 1111101001101101 11110101011001 101001001111011 11110101100101 11010100111101 1001101011011001 1111111011011010
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 373
- Average number of words per stanza: 68
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 61 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 11
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, of, to, we, have are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word we is repeated.
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