This is an analysis of the poem Poem For The Two Hundred And Fiftieth Anniversary Of The Founding Of Harvard College that begins with:

TWICE had the mellowing sun of autumn crowned
The hundredth circle of his yearly round,... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabbaacc ddeeffaaaa eegghhaabbiXddjjddiikkffee ggXlggmmnn ggeeooggbb eehhddiiaajjXXbbggii iipp aaddeeiiiiiibb ccaabbddccbb iieeqqee iiaaeeaaeeii lliieeeebbXh jjff eell rriiaahh eeeelljjrrlleeii iiffbbeeaaee ppiillhhllddffaallffccXaXXhh bbbbeehhqqXiaaii ii
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,10,26,10,10,20,4,14,12,8,12,12,4,4,8,16,12,28,16,26,54,22,4,14,14,12,14,18,8,20,14,18,8,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: heroic couplets
  • Metre: 11010010101 0101000101 1111011101 110100111001 1101010111 1111011101 1010110101 11010010111 1101010101 1101010101 1101011101 1011010101 1101111111 01001110101 1111110101 1111011101 11010101001 10001100111 1101010101 1111010101 1101010101 11001010101 1101111101 11111100101 11010110101 11001010101 1011110101 1101010101 1101011101 11010101110 1001010001 110100011 11011100111 1101011101 1101110101 0101110101 1010100111 11010001001 11001110101 1101010101 1101110001 010110000101 1101010101 1101000101 1011010101 1111010011 10110100110 1111010101 1101010111 1011010101 10110101010 11010001010 1101010101 0101010001 1101001101 1111011101 1001010101 10010010101 1011010101 0101010101 10110101001 1001010101 1001010111 1101010101 1111011001 0101010101 10111011001 1101110101 1001010101 111101101001 1000110101 10010010101 01001010101 11100010101 0101110101 1101110111 0111001001 1111011111 1111001010 0101110101 0101000101 1001110101 1101011101 0111010101 1111111101 1101010101 1101110101 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  • Amount of stanzas: 33
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 651
  • Average number of words per stanza: 113
  • Amount of lines: 480
  • 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; and, of, on, that, his, their, no, what, thy, some, its, in, to, her are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words what, the, her, where, no, who, there, a are repeated.

    The poet repeated the same word pleure at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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