This is an analysis of the poem Evelyn Hope that begins with:

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Beautiful Evelyn Hope is dead!... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: a bcbcdede X bfbfgXgc X hihibbbb X jejekiki a lalambmb a mgmghaha XXlblbhbhb
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,8,1,8,1,8,1,8,1,8,1,8,10,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1 100100101 111101110 10011001 11110010010 010011001 10110111 010111111 111110101 1 0101111 011110111 011010101 011100111 10011101 11110110 11110101 101110100 1 001111001 1111111 001101101 110101011 110111111 1110010111 111011101 101010101 1 1011101 010111001 1010100101 111111111 010101111 111110101 10011001 101011101 1 101011100 1100111111 0010100011 110111111 1111101101 1110111001 111110101 0011100111 1 1111111111 101111101 110101001 11010101 111101111 101110111 1111111001 10010111 1 111100101 11111011 11110110111 1011110111 1110110101 1110010111 110110101 10110101101
  • Amount of stanzas: 14
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 163
  • Average number of words per stanza: 31
  • Amount of lines: 63
  • Average number of symbols per line: 36 (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; her, and, to, your, young are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.

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