This is an analysis of the poem For Class Meeting that begins with:
IT is a pity and a shame--alas! alas! I know it is,
To tread the trodden grapes again, but so it has been,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abacdXd effffgcg hgigebcbXhbhjXka dkdkXcic lXXkggfX cimibnan ifffflml gXhgjlfl XdndfaiaXcgegifhf
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,8,16,8,8,8,8,8,17,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0001010101011100 0101010111010 100 01010101010 10101 11011001101 100101 111101001110 11101 1111111111 110101 010111001010 111001 0101110111 10011101 111101011101 1101 110101010100 1101 11111101111 10100 1111010101 110100 11111111110 10101 1111010111 1100101 011111011011 0100 11101001010 10101 0101010111011 100 110111010101 0100 111101111100 11101 110010101110 10101 0101111111 011000 010111010 1010100 110101011101 0100 010111111 100100 11110101110 10100 110101000101 1100 110111011101 1100 1101010111 101100 10101111101 001100 0101110101 011100 111101011111 1100 110101111101 0100 010101111101 0100 0101010011 10011100 011100101110 10100 010101010101 0100 110110001010 10111 110101000010 10111 1111010111 110100 010011111010 10100 1001010010111 1101 11010100011 10101 111001010010 11100 111111111 1011100
- Amount of stanzas: 10
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 304
- Average number of words per stanza: 56
- Amount of lines: 87
- 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; it, so, of, we, us are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word we is repeated.
The author used the same word perhaps at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word them at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of For Class Meeting;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
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