This is an analysis of the poem If I Forget Thee, O Jerusalem that begins with:
Out of the melancholy that is made
Of ebbing sorrow that too slowly ebbs,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abacdeffgeaXchiadjXheikeaakXfjXhlXejbiXXajdebiXlhma aafdakbaeben oaidpifadbeea mgfX bfkdX ee XqjealkdejbXjaeaifiaj Xbbjkc abgrldakck dbbhbj jaejfliieaj eefkjblXkbekehaahldea gokkcbkjljdhX lrdaedlic jnco XjjlckdXjkeeaeedXjajkjcgibjkhbjblbbaepeggqengd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 51,12,13,4,5,2,21,6,10,6,11,21,13,9,4,46,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1001010101 0101011101 1101010001 0101110101 1001110111 1101011100 01000100001 00100010001 1011010001 0111010101 0011110111 0101011101 1101010101 1101011111 11110011101 0100011101 0111110111 1001110111 110111100101 1011010101 1101101111 100101 1101 0111111111 1111010111 0110110101 111001 1101 0101010101 1011111101 10110010100 010010100111 0101011101 1101011000 11101010101 01110011 01 1110010101 0111011111 111111010 0111110101 10010 00101 1100011100 1101010101 1011011101 1001010111 11100001001 1111010101 1101010101 1001 110101 1101110101 1101011101 1111011111 0101010101 0101010101 11001011011 1011011001 1100010101 1101000101 1111010101 1101010111 0101011001 1101001111 1101000111 1111101111 1101110111 11110110111 0101001101 1011110011 1111011101 11110101110 0110111111 1110011111 0111 101011 1110111100 0101110101 1111111111 1011010101 10101011111 001010100111 1111010111 01011011101 1101110111 0111010111 1101111011 11011001010 0101011101 0100110011 00101110101 1101010101 10110001001 1011010111 00111010101 0100011111 11011011101 1111011010 1011110101 1011010101 100101100 1101100101 1101111101 0101110101 1101100101 11011101001 1111010100 111111100 1101110111 1111110101 1001101101 101101101 0100010101 1101000101 1011010101 1101100101 0011111100 1011110101 1101010101 0001010101 01001000101 1001100111 1101110101 1101011111 1101011001 1101010011 0111111101 01010100101 1101010101 1011011111 110101 0101 1001111101 1100010001 1111010111 1101110100 1111 110111 0101010111 1101010101 1101010101 0011010101 0111110111 1101010101 1101110111 1011010100 1101010111 1101010101 1101110101 10111100 11 1101001101 0100110101 1001010101 0101010101 1111010101 01011100111 1101001101 1100110111 1001111101 1101111111 1101111001 0101011101 0101110101 0011011101 10011010111 11100111101 1111101100 1111110001 1111111001 1101111110 1101010101 1111010001 110101010 0101101111 1101101100 0101011101 0101010101 1101000101 1100110101 1100110101 11101001111 00110101 1101010101 1111010101 1111110111 1011011101 1101111101 1101010101 1101000001 10101 00111 11110010101 0011110101 0011010110 1101110111 1110111101 1110000111 1111000101 1101110100 1111011111 1011110111 0101110111 1101100111 0111110101 1101010101 0101110101 1101010101 11010111 11 1101011111 0101011111 0111011101 0001100101 1111011101 1001110101 111000010100 10110100111 11011111001 0111111101 110101 0101 01000010101 0101001111 01101101101 0101011101 10111010111 1101110111 110101100110 0101111111 0101011101 1011001001 1101
- Amount of stanzas: 16
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 599
- Average number of words per stanza: 114
- Amount of lines: 234
- Average number of symbols per line: 40 (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; of, how, me, and, to, i, her, wanted, it, for, pity are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words how, and, of, the, to are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines world is repeated).
The poet repeated the same words ', town at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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