This is an analysis of the poem The Great Beech that begins with:
With heart disposed to memory, let me stand
Near this monarch and this minstrel of the land, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbb ccddd eefff eXggg hhaaa eeiii ddfff ddeee Xaaaa aaeee eeaaa ggeeX ggiiX jjccc ggccX jjaaa kkggg fflll
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 01010100111 10111010001 11101110001 1000011110101 010100101010101 010010010011 01001010001 10011100101 1000010111 11010100110001 1111110101 100100010101 1110010101 1100110101 01001101110001 1111010111 1101011101 0101100111 1101110111 01010100110101 10111001101 1111010001 01110100101 1011110111 110100010111001 1101000111 11010101001 1001110101 1101010101 01010101011111 1111011001 1011010101 1111001111 11001100101 11110101111101 11010000101 10010001001 1101010101 1100110101 1001010100111 11011111010 1100010101 1001011101 1001000111 110101001110101 1011010101 0111011101 1011010101 1011110101 10010101111101 1111111101 100101000101 1011010111 0101010101 110001110100001 1100010111 01111000111 1101010110 1111010101 010100101010100 01001010101 1101011101 01110101011 1111110111 011100010100101 0101101111 10010100101 1101010101 1101010111 10010111011001 1111000101 0101010101 01001011101 11110100101 010101000100101 1001010001 110111010001 10010010101 1111010101 110101001110101 1101110001 1011010111 1101011101 11001111001 01110101001001 11010110101 0101111001 01010000101 01110000101 01110101110001
- Amount of stanzas: 18
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 235
- Average number of words per stanza: 41
- Amount of lines: 90
- Average number of symbols per line: 46 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, to, and, rightly are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
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