This is an analysis of the poem The Star's Monument that begins with:

[He thinks.]
If there be memory in the world to come,... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: A bcbcbcded A fgfgfgff Hihihijj adadadkk HlmlXlff jfjfjfnn lllllljj jhjhjhbb hXhgXXjX ihihihec jXjdjdll hihihihX jhjhjhdd hihXmiaa djdjdXll dfdfdXXf ejejojcX fjfjfjXd mhhhhXpX ljljljiX XXXXiaaa dededeaa ldldldhX fhXhXhll llllllhX Xjjjjjqq jjjjXjbX fdfdf
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,9,1,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,9,8,8,8,8,9,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,1,8,8,1,8,8,8,8,1,8,1,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,7,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,17,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: blank verse
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1001011001 1111010101 1001001001 10101001100 0101010101 1111011011 11011111001 1001011101 1101010111 1111111101 0101011111 11010101001 1101010001 1101010111 11010111 11 11110110101 1111000101 0011110101 1101011111 1111001101 11011001010 1111110101 1101010101 1100111111 1101111111 01011100101 1111111101 1111010011 1101111101 1101000111 11010110101 1101011111 1101011011 0101011101 1101011101 0101110100 1111100101 11110111111 1111111011 1101111101 1101111101 1011010111 1111110001 0111011111 1011111111 01011110111 10110011110 11110101010 1011101101 1111001111 0101110111 1101110111 1101111101 1111011101 1001011111 1111011111 11 10101011101 1111111111 0101011101 1101111111 1111010101 1101011111 1001010111 1011011101 1011011101 10111111110 1001110011 1111111101 0101010101 1111011111 1101110111 1110011111 1101011101 11011101010 1101110100 1101110001 1001110111 1101110100 1100011001 11001111110 0101110011 1101110111 011011011 11110100010 1111010111 1101010001 0110000111 1111010101 1101011110 1101111100 1101110100 1111010100 1111011001 1110010111 1001011111 0101000101 1111001100 1111010100 1101010100 1101011101 11010101101 1001010101 1011110011 11110111011 1111010001 1011110111 1001100101 1101010100 1111101111 0100010111 1011010111 01010111110 1011010101 1101000101 11110100101 0011011101 101011101 1111110101 01001100101 1111011101 11 0111111111 1101111100 11111111100 10011010101 0111110111 1101011101 0001011001 0111010101 1111110111 1101110101 1111010111 11001110111 1100010011 1101010111 110010101010 0100111101 11 1101010111 0101111101 0111011111 1101001111 1111110101 0101001111 0101110101 01010111110 1101010101 1101010101 0101111111 1100010101 0101110001 1111011101 0101110111 1111111111 1101110101 1101010101 0111010100 1111010101 1100010111 1110110111 1001110001 1101110100 1101011101 1101010100 1101110101 1101011101 1011100101 1101010101 0101010111 110101010101 11 1111001101 01111111001 11010101111 1101111101 1101010111 1101010101 1101010001 01010101011 11 1100110101 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10010111010 0101010111 0100011001 1111011101 11010001001 1111111111 0101010110 0101111101 1101110111 01010111110 0101010111 1101010111 1101010101 1111010001 0101011100 11010001001 1011010101 1111011101 0101100111 11110111110 1101110111 1111110001 11111100101 1111010111 01010100101 1111110101 1101010111 0101010100 1101011101 0101101101 01010010011 1011010111 11010111101 0101010111 11111101001 0101010001 1101001111 1110010101 1011111111 0011000100 1111010101 0110011100 11001110101 1100011101 1111010100 1111111111 0111111100 1011010001 1101010010 1111010101 1101110101 1001010101 1101010111 1101011111 1101010101 0100011101 1111001101 0111111101 1101010101 1001010101 1111010101 11010001010 1111010111 1101010101 0011010101 1101011101 1101111110 1100110100 11001011010 1111010101 01010101010 1101010101 11010111010 1111010101 1101010111 1111010101 1101110111 0111010111 1101010101 1001001101 1101010111 0101010101 0101011101 11010111000 1101010101 10110111000 1101101100 1001010101 10101010011 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  • Amount of stanzas: 97
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 325
  • Average number of words per stanza: 62
  • Amount of lines: 746
  • 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; of, her, to, and, o, for, from, he, it, ', that, stars, i, she, better, be, god, doth, thou, but, his, in, home, nor are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words if, and, their, he, she, i, a, for, though, my, the, strange, what, forgot, there, or, nor are repeated.

    The author used the same words 'o, he, then, 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 ' is repeated).

    The poet repeated the same word ' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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