This is an analysis of the poem Poetry: A Metrical Essay, Read Before The Phi Beta Kappa Society, Harvard that begins with:
To Charles Wentworth Upham, the Following Metrical Essay is Affectionately Inscribed.
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- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,6,8,12,14,12,10,12,24,14,12,6,10,24,6,27,12,10,8,4,14,20,4,6,13,8,12,8,14,6,14,14,17,24,14,8,14,12,12,14,6,9,18,8,8,11,6,8,4,10,14,6,6,6,10,8,10,27,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 010111001001000100100001 101101010010 11010010101 1001011101 1101010101 1001010101 0111010101 1111000101 1111100101 11110111100 0101100101 1001001101 1111000101 11111111001 1101111101 01011101001 1101010101 0111010101 1111000101 1111110101 1011010101 11010101010 11110101010 1101110101 1101001101 1001110101 010011101001 1101010101 0101110101 11001110001 11111100011 1001110001 10110101001 1101000101 11010010101 1101010101 110010010101 1011010101 010110001 1101010101 11010000001 110010001001 1101011101 1111010101 1101110011 0111000101 11010000101 0101010101 111100011 1101011101 11010101001 1111001101 1101010101 1101010101 1001001101 0111010111 1101001101 1001000101 01001010101 1101010001 1101010111 1001010101 11111100101 110101010010 11010000101 00010100101 1101010101 1101010101 1101000011 1101010101 1101010001 11110010111 1101110101 11010110101 1101110101 1111011110 0111010101 0101010101 0101010101 010100001001 0101010111 01100110111 0111000111 01010010001 0111010001 01110010101 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- Amount of stanzas: 58
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 509
- Average number of words per stanza: 89
- Amount of lines: 656
- 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; my, in, her, of, as, with, or, s, and, his, whose, to, its, some, he, we, er are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, the, where, whose, its, he, but are repeated.
The author used the same words thus, if at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Poetry: A Metrical Essay, Read Before The Phi Beta Kappa Society, Harvard;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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