This is an analysis of the poem Grant At Rest-- August 8, 1885 that begins with:
Sir Launcelot rode overthwart and endlong in a wide forest, and held no
path but as wild adventure led him... And he returned and came again to his... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcdX e efeXdddd cdcdcccc ababdede aeaEgaga bebXefef ghghaeaE gdgdXcXc cfcXdcdc cXcbaaaaXbfbfebeb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,1,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,17,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1101110011000110111 1111010111101110100 11110101010111101 1000111000111110101 010101101000 1 111100101 011110111 11111111 01001000 010010111 1110011 1011100111 001010101 1010100101 1010101101 1111110101 110110101 111100111 010111101 1111111101 111111101 1010011111 111100101 110110111 1010101101 1111011101 010101101 0111010101 10101100111 011100101 110100101 10110100101 11101101 110110101 110110101 1110110111 100101101 111111110 111010001 1110010111 10111001100 1010111101 1111010111 100100101 110110111 111100101 010100101 10101000111 10100100 010100101 011100111 10110100101 11101101 100010101 1101011 11011101 110010101 101011001010 001010011 111011101 010110101 1101011011 110101101 1010100111 1010010101 1100101101 110111101 11111101 111110101 110101111 0011100101 011101101 10100101001 110101101 10100101 110100111 110100101 11011001001 0011000101 011100101 0010111101 111111101 0011101111 110100101 1010100101
- Amount of stanzas: 12
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 297
- Average number of words per stanza: 57
- Amount of lines: 86
- 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; and, his, him, of, he are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, does, the, like are repeated.
The author used the same word and 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 grant is repeated).
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