This is an analysis of the poem Centennial that begins with:
A hundred times the bells of Brown
Have rung to sleep the idle summers, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab bcbX cccc XdXd efef fgfg abab hihi aXab abab icic ecec acac idid jcjc gkgk lclcXjbjb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 01010101 110101010 110111001 010001010 11110101 010101010 11000101 010101100 01010101 1011101010 110100101 011101010 11010101 110001010 10110111 010101010 110100111 010101010 11010101 1000111010 11110111 1101010010 11010100 111101010 010010111 011001010 110010101 010111010 11111111 111111110 11010101 010101010 11100101 01100010010 10010101 0100010010 11111111 111111010 11001101 1101010010 11101001 110101110 11111101 010001110 1001001001 110101010 010111001 010101110 010101001 110111010 110100101 111111010 11111111 1101110110 11110101 110101110 11111111 010101010 01000101 1100101010 11010101 1111010010 11010101 1101111010 11010111 01001001010 11111101 111101010 111101001 0101010010 11010101 1100101010
- Amount of stanzas: 18
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 151
- Average number of words per stanza: 26
- Amount of lines: 72
- Average number of symbols per line: 37 (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, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, and are repeated.
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- summary of Centennial;
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