This is an analysis of the poem Rev. Dr. T. M. Cooley, that begins with:
For more than sixty years Pastor of one Church in East Granville,
Mass., died there in 1859, aged 83.... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aX bcbcdefcgfgXgcXechaXafigcbhd efXi
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,28,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111100100110110 1110111 10010111001 0100010101 01011001011 0101110111 0111011001 0001011000 1100010101 0101010 111 0111011100 0101011111 1101110101 11010 11111 0111000101 1111011011 10010101001 1100111101 1001010001 1101000101 10110 11101 1100010101 0101011101 1101010111 1101011101 11011101001 0101010 101 1001010101 1111010111 1001010001
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 429
- Average number of words per stanza: 76
- Amount of lines: 35
- Average number of symbols per line: 36 (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; in, of, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word to is repeated.
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