This is an analysis of the poem Remember--Forget that begins with:
AND what shall be the song to-night,
If song there needs must be?... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcbdbab efXfegag agcgaafX abfbafXf bdhdhiai ffefhedX ehXhgaXa dhXhaeee
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 11100101 011110 010011111 1111001 11010101 110101 101111011 110101 11011001 0101011 11011101 111111 01010001 010001 11100101 110101 00110101 111101 11111111 110101 11110111 010101 01110111 010110 01011111 010111 01010101 011101 01010101 011101 01011101 010001 11010111 110101 11111101 110001 01111101 1101010 11011111 0101010 11010011 001101 11010100 0101111 111010101 1110111 11010111 0101 11110001 010001 01010110 111101 11010111 1110001 11111101 110101 11011101 111111 111101001 1100101 01110101 010111 11111101 111101
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 252
- Average number of words per stanza: 48
- Amount of lines: 64
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; her is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words if, the, remember, we are repeated.
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