This is an analysis of the poem Hymn For The Celebration At The Laying Of The Cornerstone Of Harvard Memorial Hall, Cambridge, October 6, 1870 that begins with:
NOT with the anguish of hearts that are breaking
Come we as mourners to weep for our dead;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab acac de de ffff
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,2,2,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10010011110 1111001111 10111110010 1001111111 110110010110 1011101001 11110010010 10001011001 11110110110 1111001101 10011110110 1111001011 10110110010 1111011011 10010110010 1001101011
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 145
- Average number of words per stanza: 27
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 45 (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; our, their, may are repeated.
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