This is an analysis of the poem Rev. Dr. F. W. Hatch, that begins with:
Died at Sacramento, California, January 16th, 1860, aged 70.
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Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: X abcXdXXXXdXXcbe bccccf fabcXefcbXb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,15,6,11,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 111010101010101111 0101000101 1101110111 0101000101 10101110111 0101011100 010101 01001 10110000101 11000101010 1100011101 0101011100 0101011100 110110101101 1101110111 1111101001 11110100100 01010010101 1101010101 1101010101 1101001111 01010001110 1101010111 1001110101 1101111101 1001010001 1001111110 01010 00111 1101010101 0101011100 11110111101 1010011111
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 336
- Average number of words per stanza: 62
- Amount of lines: 34
- Average number of symbols per line: 39 (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, and are repeated.
The author used the same word and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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