This is an analysis of the poem Clearances that begins with:
In Memoriam M.K.H., 1911-1984
She taught me what her uncle once taught her:...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: X abb cXd ede cdcdfXfX Xghdgd diidddjX hghaXa gkddjakk hllhkk bcXcmcXXlnnmlm dodoehXhhhcecg kekebbbbndnXhh aabhXhhhhjhhdh gggXmhmXnXnjaj
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,3,3,3,8,6,8,6,8,6,14,14,14,14,14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 0100111 1111010110 1100010111 011011010101 0101010101 011010101010 110111010 1101010101 01010111010 01010101001 0101010001 11011011 1101110111 01011011 111001 100101111 10101101010 11110101010 101101100010 101000101 010011101 110010111 01010101001 001010010101 10010011111 0101010111 11001010111 0101010111 0011010101 0101011001 1101011111 1111111111 00101111001 1110010001 01001110111 01000101010 0111011011 111100101010 1101000111 1110111010 1101011111 110101010010 1101011101 1000100110 10111101010 011011110110 1101011011 11011111010 1100101110 10100110111 0101110101 1010011011 1010101001 01000010010 0101101101 1101010101 1001101101 0101010011 1010001010 0110111111 1101111011 0100010001 010100010 0111101111 1100010001 1011111111 0111111101 1110111000 11111100010 1101011101 11010001111 0101010011 10101110101 11111111101 101101010110 11011111110 0111111111 101011101 0111111111 010111011101 00110010101 0101010101 0100111101 01110010101 11011100101 011011101 0011111001 1101010001 1011101111 1010001011 01010111 110101000 10101110101 111111011 0011011100 1110111010 100111111 1111111101 1110010011 0111100111 1111110101 1100111111 010101001010 1111111101 0111011010 0010101010 1001100110 1101101110 1101011101 1001010001 1011111101 0111010100 0111111101 11010101010 10010101 101011000 1011110001 110111110 110011001 0111010111 011001010 100110101
- Amount of stanzas: 15
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 339
- Average number of words per stanza: 62
- Amount of lines: 122
- Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
- 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; taught, me, to, ', and, had are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words taught, to, and, for are repeated.
The author used the same word in at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines ', happened are repeated).
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