This is an analysis of the poem Dulcis Memoria that begins with:
Long, long ago I heard a little song,
(Ah, was it long ago, or yesterday?)... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aBacaac dBdcaac eBecffc gbgcaaX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,7,7,7,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1101110101 1101011101 1101010101 1100110101 01000101010 110101001010 0111111101 11011101010 1101011101 11011101110 1101010101 01011100010 01011101010 01010111101 1101110101 1101011101 0001011111 1101101111 11011111111 11001111101 1101111101 11011100101 0111011101 1101110111 11010101001 01010101010 01011100110 11001110111
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 293
- Average number of words per stanza: 56
- Amount of lines: 28
- 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; long, so, his are repeated.
The author used the same word long at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines him is repeated).
The poet repeated the same word away at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of Dulcis Memoria;
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