This is an analysis of the poem Hon. Thomas S. Williams, that begins with:

Late Chief Justice of Connecticut, died at Hartford, on Sunday morning,
December 15th, 1861, aged 84.... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XX Xabc dedXdXfdXdbgXgXbeafhgcde bedffdcdia dXbdeiXh XcXifigffd
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,4,24,10,8,10,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 111000100111011110 0101111 111111 1011000101 11100101110 101101 1111 0101000101 0101011101 0111110001 0101010101 11010010001 0011110100 0111010101 1101001101 0100000111 0111110001 0101011100 1101110100 1010 010011 11110010101 1111011111 101001 0101 1111010111 1001110100 01010000101 01100010011 1110010 11101 1001011111 11001010001 1111010001 10101100101 1101010001 010010001101 10010011101 1111000101 1011001 1101 101111000100 010010001101 0100010101 11111111001 0101011101 0101011101 01011 1100 0101010101 1110110001 0100110101 11110011101 01010010101 01010010101 0101010101 0111010101 1101
  • Amount of stanzas: 6
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 365
  • Average number of words per stanza: 65
  • Amount of lines: 59
  • Average number of symbols per line: 36 (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, from are repeated.

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