This is an analysis of the poem Memorial Verses that begins with:
Goethe in Weimar sleeps, and Greece,
Long since, saw Byron's struggle cease.... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbb ccddeeXff gghhaiai jjffiikkkaa aaggbbllXbmggmccm mnnggXg ooaajjididXXl ppnn X
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,9,8,11,17,7,13,4,1,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 1010111 11110101 11110101 01010101 11011101 11010101 11111111 11110111 11110101 010010111 01000101 11010101 110101001 11110101 11011111 11010101 01000101 1110100 110100101 11111101 11010101 11110111 111101010 0101110010 011101001 01100101 11010101 11111101 11110001 10011101 01010101 01010101 11110100 11011101 11011101 001100101 111111001 101101001 11010101 10110111 11110111 11010101 11010101 01010101 11110111 11001001 11111101 11111111 101100101 11011111 01011101 110011101 11110111 11011111 11011101 101111010 01000101 11111101 110111001 11011001 10111101 110101010 011101010 10011101 10111101 10010101 11110111 01010100 10010100 11110101 11010101 11001101 11111111 11111101 101
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 294
- Average number of words per stanza: 54
- Amount of lines: 76
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (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; our, with, and, he are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words he, and, our are repeated.
The author used the same word when at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Memorial Verses;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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