This is an analysis of the poem Gettysburg Ode that begins with:
After the eyes that looked, the lips that spake
Here, from the shadows of impending death,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbaccddddeedffgbggXXXggXggX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 28,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 1001110111 1001100101 110101 111101 0101010111 1111010111 1101010001 0101001101 1011111101 1101010101 0100010111 1101110101 1101001 1101011101 1111000101 1001111101 1101010101 01010101 0111001101 1100010001 0100111101 0101010 100100101 0101010011 01110001010 110001 111101 1101010001000
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1083
- Average number of words per stanza: 189
- Amount of lines: 28
- Average number of symbols per line: 38 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word of is repeated.
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