This is an analysis of the poem A Souvenir that begins with:
YES, lady! I can ne'er forget,
That once in other years we met;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccdd eeffgghh aaggiiaa ddhhXXhh jjbbhhkkXccffhhhh
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,17,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11011101 11010011 110010101 010101101 01010101 01010101 10110101 11010101 11110101 11010101 01011111 11110101 11010111 11010111 11011111 01111101 11011011 11110111 01110101 111111001 11011101 11011101 11011101 11110111 110101111 01011101 11111111 111100101 11111110 110000101 11110101 1110100 110111010 111101010 11000101 11110111 110100111 110100001 11110111 010111001 11011101 110101001 11010101 01001101 11110111 01111101 101100111 100100101
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 289
- Average number of words per stanza: 55
- Amount of lines: 48
- 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; its, to, thy are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words its, thy, i are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines glance is repeated).
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- summary of A Souvenir;
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