This is an analysis of the poem Mrs. Helen Tyler Beach, that begins with:
Wife of Mr. C. N. BEACH, died at Philadelphia, July 30th, 1860.
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Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: X XaXa bcXc adad debe XdXd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101011111101000111 11111101 1100101 10010111 110101 11111101 011001 11111111 110101 01011111 010101 11011111 010101 11100101 010111 0100100011 0100101 11111101 0101010 11110111 0101010
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 117
- Average number of words per stanza: 21
- Amount of lines: 22
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (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; to is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word to is repeated.
The author used the same word how at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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