This is an analysis of the poem Mrs. Frederick Tyler, that begins with:

Died at Hartford, Wednesday, June 19th, 1861.
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  • Rhyme scheme: X abcd efgh Xgijchhffjhik ifgbadX hkjc jheXXjj
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,4,4,13,7,4,7,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 111011111 1101010111 0101011111 1011010101 0101 110101 1001011101 1100011100 0101110 101 11110010101 10001011101 1101010101 0100010101 1101111100 0101001001 0101010101 0111010111 11000111001 1001000100 01001000111 0100 0101001 1101010101 1111001101 10010101001 0101010001 0001000101 101000 1101 01011011010 1111101111 010100 0101 1001010111 1101010101 1101011111 0100011001 1101010101 1111110101
  • Amount of stanzas: 7
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 211
  • Average number of words per stanza: 37
  • Amount of lines: 41
  • Average number of symbols per line: 35 (medium-length strings)
  • 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; to, and, of are repeated.

    The author used the same word they at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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