This is an analysis of the poem On The Grave Of A Young Cavalry Officer Killed In The Valley Of Virginia that begins with:
Beauty and youth, with manners sweet, and
friends--... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Xababb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101101011 1 11011100011 111100101 11110100 01001000111
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 207
- Average number of words per stanza: 37
- Amount of lines: 6
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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