This is an analysis of the poem Ode Recited At The Harvard Commemoration July 21, 1865 that begins with:
Weak-Winged is Song,
Nor aims at that clear-ethered height... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbaccddeeaffa gegeeeeeeXchhheiieijiiij kbkbcclXlXmhhXcXackfkkfbbb jkkjkjkmmkjiijbllblbbliikjjkXkiibeeillkjjk niinlllbllbhbbhhmiimjjobbggbikiiikpgpcgccbmobbmdidikekedldl
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,24,26,42,59,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1101 111111001 10011111 110101 1011010111 1011111101 11001010111 01010100111 11010101010 11011111110 10110111 010100010111 0101010101 0010001 1011110111 010101010 1011110011 00110111010 10011110 10011110 11110110 11110110 11011110 10010010 0001010 110101 1101100111 1111010101 1100110 111101 1001000111 11000101010 111101 1001001 000101 1101011 011101 110101111001 11011100111 0001010001 101101 0101110101 0111011 10011111111 110101 1111110 10101 010111 010101 010111 011101 01010010 1111010111 1101010100 100101001010 0101010101 11110110110 10110100111 011100101010 11010101010 1111010001 11111100100 0111011101 1011011111 10101 010111 1111001 011101 011001 11010101 11010011 1011111 110101001001 11001011101 11010101 11010101 1011010101 1001001 1110110101 1001101 100101 011101 1101010111 1011010011 11000100101 1101010101 110101111 0111010101 1110010111 1111111111 1101010011 11111100101 01001101010 110100101 11000101 1100010101 110001 1101010 1101010 0101011101 011011 11000101 11010101 1111110101 1101010101 1001010111 1111101 11010111 010101 1001001101 0110001111 0110110111 1111101101 101111 110101 111111 010111 1101110111 11011001 0010001 0101010101 1110010111 110001 1101001101 1101110101 11110101000 11110101 11011101 1111000100 11110101 111111 01110110001 110100 1110110010111 0111010101 10011101101 0111110101 1101010101 1011011101 1101010110101 100101 1101010101 11010111 11010101 110100 1101001101 110101101101 11110011 1110010110 0111000100 1100111101 10011001 111101 110101 110101 1100010101 101001 11001111 011101010 111101 11111101010 11010101 0101010101 1001010111 110111010100
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1233
- Average number of words per stanza: 226
- Amount of lines: 165
- Average number of symbols per line: 36 (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; to, and, for, her, thy, he, of, in, his are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words many, and, they are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines her, us are repeated).
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase he connects the lines.
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