Mrs. Joseph Morgan, by Lydia Huntley Sigourney: poem analysis

This is an analysis of the poem Mrs. Joseph Morgan, that begins with:

Died at Hartford, August, 1859.
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Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: X abc XXdeeX dfdadddecfg afXaXgXbXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,3,6,11,10,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 1110101 11010101010 1101010101 1011010100 1010110101 0011000101 0111010001 10010010111 1111010001 0101010 1001 1111110101 1101011101 1111011111 11101100111 1001110101 0101010101 10110001001 1110100100 1111 111111 1111011101 1101110011 1101011101 0100010101 1100010111 1101111101 10110011100 010101 1110 1111
  • Amount of stanzas: 6
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 198
  • Average number of words per stanza: 37
  • Amount of lines: 33
  • Average number of symbols per line: 35 (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; her, and, she are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word muse is repeated.

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