This is an analysis of the poem 1647 that begins with:
They were burned.
Long before the Salem ones....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcddXXXdXbbbaebbbbbffXeXb c bbeXcXXXec
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 26,1,10,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101 1010101 0100100 011 0110101 11010 101 101101 1111010 11101 111001 1010111101 110101 1101 00100100100 1011101 10100100101 1010010100 11001 01011 0101 010010111 1010111 11 10010 0110110 1 110110010110 01000110101001 1001110101010 01001101010000101 0100011010001000100 111101111011111 110110100 11 1101100110101001100101010001001101010100101110100011110111101010000110001010101110100110100110101001101011011001001001101100000010011100100
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 416
- Average number of words per stanza: 68
- Amount of lines: 37
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- 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; in is repeated.
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- summary of 1647;
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