This is an analysis of the poem Charles Sumner. (Birds Of Passage. Flight The Fourth) that begins with:
Garlands upon his grave
And flowers upon his hearse,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab cdcd efef gfgf hfhf didi jhjh kfkfXhdhd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 100101 1100101 10010111 010001 010101 010101 01010001 010011 110011 000101 01001111 011001 100101 010101 110100101 110101 111101 1111001 01010101 111001 100101 011101 101010101 010001 011111 110101 10100101 010101 0011011 110101 110010001 111101 110111 100111 01110111 010101
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 113
- Average number of words per stanza: 21
- Amount of lines: 36
- Average number of symbols per line: 28 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, the are repeated.
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- summary of Charles Sumner. (Birds Of Passage. Flight The Fourth);
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
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