This is an analysis of the poem A Poem: To The Memory Of Mrs. Oldfield that begins with:
Oldfield's no more!-And can the Muse forbear,
O'er Oldfield's Grave to shed a grateful Tear?... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Xabbccddd eXffXgdd hhiiiijjjjkkjjiikkllaaiXjj Xaiijjjjddff ffggllmmiikk bbffiiXeXdmmddllnnmmXajX hhiieejjjaaggddddiillddjj Xaccjj ooffeeggkkkk iijjdd ddjjeeXiffiXdddXjjjjdd X
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,8,26,12,12,24,25,6,12,6,22,1,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 1011110110 10101010101 1101000101 1001110001 1111011001 1101011101 1101001101 1101010101 1001010011 1111010101 1101110110 1101110101 1101010101 0110010101 1111010101 01001010111 11010100001 1111110101 101000101 0111001101 1111010101 1101011001 11010001101 0101010001 1101010011 1111010101 11110100111 1011010111 1101110101 1101110001 1101010101 1101010101 0101110101 11010010101 11100110101 1111001101 1011010101 01010011101 1001110001 110010101001 0101010010 0101010011 1011110100 11111101110 0101010001 1101000101 1101110001 11010010101 1101100101 1101010011 11001111101 0101110101 0101010101 0101010101 10011100001 1101010111 1111010101 11011100101 1001010101 1100110101 0101000101 1101000101 0100101101 0111010111 1100010001 0101111101 01010100101 11110100101 1101010101 0101010111 0110111101 111101001001 111001001001 11110010010 11001010101 1111110010 1111110011 1001100101 1111010001 1001010101 01010100101 1111011101 1111010111 10110010101 1101011111 0101010101 1101011101 1101110110 1101010101 11001010001 11110001100 1011010001 1101110101 1001000101 1101010001 1111001001 0101010101 1111010001 1111111111 1101010011 1101011101 1101110101 1001011101 1101011111 100101011 1110110101 1101010101 1001001101 1100010111 01111100101 1101010101 1101000101 1011011101 1100110011 110100101 01001010101 11010101010 1111110111 01011100101 1111111111 10111100101 100101010101 11011101010 111101100010 0101010101 1101011101 1101010011 0111111111 1101010101 11010101001 01010110001 0111010101 1101010101 10010101010101 10010010011 11011100101 1111010101 0101010001 1101010101 1111010001 100001010101 1011010101 01110100111 0001010101 1101010101 11011101101 1101011010 11001010101 11010100101 011000101 1111011101 1111011110 11110111010 01110101110 0101010101 0101010110 0110110101 1101001101 0101010101 1101011001 10101010101 1111010101 10
- Amount of stanzas: 12
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 590
- Average number of words per stanza: 104
- Amount of lines: 173
- Average number of symbols per line: 40 (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; of, as, which, so, she, to, and, her, or, our, ye, your are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, renown, and are repeated.
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