This is an analysis of the poem Henrietta Selden Colt, that begins with:
Daughter of Col. SAMUEL and Mrs. ELIZABETH COLT, died January 20th,
1862, aged 7 months and 27 days.... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Xa X Xbaab XXccb decce Xfbbf dbddX bgeeg hbaab hdaad diggi
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,1,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10011011001001110101 1111111 01010 011111 10110100 11010111 10110011 011111 011111 010111 11010111 11001101 010111 110101 101111 11110101 010101001 101001 110111 110101 11111101 01010101 011111 1101001 111111 11010101 1101101 010100 101101 111101 01011101 01000101 1001 1101101 010101 1111010010 10001110010 110101 111101 110101 01010100 11110111 010101 110101 111111 01011101 11011111 11111
- Amount of stanzas: 11
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 134
- Average number of words per stanza: 24
- Amount of lines: 49
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; my, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word a is repeated.
The author used the same words a, thy at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word thee at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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