This is an analysis of the poem The Golden Wedding Of Sterling And Sarah Lanier, September 27, 1868. that begins with:

By the Eldest Grandson.
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  • Rhyme scheme: a bbbcdXdc eeefgggf fffhiiih aaaajjja kkkaiiia bbbcbbbX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,8,8,8,8,8,8,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 101011 01110100 10010101 01111111 1100101001 1101110101 1010011101 110110111 011100101 1100100101 110010101 110010111 100110101 11010011 11000101 11010101 01010111 110101101 11011101 11110001 01011101 110100101 01011111 11001101 00110101 11010101 101011111 01011101 010111010 11110101 11110101 11111111 110101010 11000101 111100101 111101001 01110101 11001101 00010111 11110011 1111111 11011101 11110001 11011101 011111111 11110111 01110100 01111101 111110101
  • Amount of stanzas: 7
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 257
  • Average number of words per stanza: 49
  • Amount of lines: 50
  • Average number of symbols per line: 35 (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; gold is repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words gold, dear are repeated.

    The author used the same word o at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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