This is an analysis of the poem In Memory Of Charles Wentworth Upham, Jr. that begins with:

HE was all sunshine; in his face
The very soul of sweetness shone;... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: abab cdcd abab aeae fafa cece bbbX gbgb hXhX bibi
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: ballad stanza
  • Metre: 11111001 01010101 101100001 11111111 10110111 001011101 11110101 11010101 10001101 110000101 11011011 110100101 11011111 11110111 110101001 11011101 11010111 11010111 01011111 100010101 11011011 11011101 11010101 01010101 11111101 110011111 111001101 010101100 11011111 11110101 11010111 11010111 111111011 10010111 10010101 11010101 11010111 11111101 11110101 10011111
  • Amount of stanzas: 10
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 145
  • Average number of words per stanza: 27
  • Amount of lines: 40
  • 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; that, my, ' are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words that, my are repeated.

    The author used the same word something at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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