This is an analysis of the poem Mr. Norman Burr, that begins with:
Editor of the 'Christian Secretary' for more than twenty years, died at
Hartford, December 5th, aged 59.... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aX bcd XXae cfbX Xdedeag XXfddg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,3,4,4,7,6,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1000010100011110011 10010111 1111010101 1001000100 1011111101 0111001101 0101010101 10010010101 1100110101 0111010100 1011010101 0100011111 0100 110100 0101110101 0101010101 0100100101 1101110101 1001110101 1100010 011 0100110101 1101010101 01001000101 10010011101 1011000101
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 171
- Average number of words per stanza: 30
- Amount of lines: 27
- 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; of is repeated.
The author used the same word his at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
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