This is an analysis of the poem To The Memory Of Charles B. Storrs that begins with:

Thou hast fallen in thine armor,
Thou martyr of the Lord... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: abXbXXcd ceaefbeb bgegceXe afXfafXf ddfdXeXe dbXbeeee AfXfhehe dihiAede ajXjbkbk hfefalXl
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11100110 110001 01111010 1110101 0101100 10101100 101000100 011101 10110100 0101010 10101010 1100010 10111010 010001 00101010 010011 10100011 1010101 10101010 0010001 1111010 010101 11101010 100101 1001110 010111 1101010 0111001 1101110 110001 10100110 1011101 1101110 110101 1101011 110101 1101010 0101010 11010100 0101010 1101010 1100101 1111100 010101 1111010 0101001 10101010 1011001 1011010 010111 0101010 110001 11110100 010110 01010011 101111 10101010 0100101 01000101 110101 1011010 11001010 0101110 0101010 1001010 010100 0101010 10001 0111110 101101 10011110 010001 00101011 1010101 00110010 1010100 10101110 1110110 00100010 1010001
  • Amount of stanzas: 10
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 226
  • Average number of words per stanza: 41
  • Amount of lines: 80
  • Average number of symbols per line: 27 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 5
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; be, of are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words thou, a are repeated.

    The author used the same word when at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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