This is an analysis of the poem Francis Parkman that begins with:
September 16, 1823 — November 8, 1893
HE rests from toil; the portals of the tomb... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: X abab cdcd ebeb fgfg hihi Xddd eded djdj dfdf kbkb didi idid XfcfXdbdb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 0101101011 1101010001 1101011001 11110101001 10010001101 1100100101 11011000101 1001110101 0101000111 11110110001 1110010111 1101010001 11010000101 1101011101 010010001001 0101110101 0101110100 1101110111 1101010111 1111010101 1101010101 11110100100 1101010101 1101010101 1101110101 1101110101 1101010101 0101110101 0101010101 1101110111 11001001001 11010010101 1101010111 11001010101 0111110101 1011010111 0101010101 110001010101 11110100101 1101110101 1101010101 1101010101 10110011101 0101010101 1111010101 0101111101 0111000101 0101010101 1101010111 10010111010 0111011111 11100100111 0111110101 01110000101 1110011101 1111001001 0101010101
- Amount of stanzas: 15
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 170
- Average number of words per stanza: 30
- Amount of lines: 57
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (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; he, to, no are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words of, what, not, a, he, which are repeated.
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