This is an analysis of the poem Acrostics: Iii. A Tribute To The Memory Of John Dent that begins with:
A task so painful, yet so justly due
To thee, my dear, my much respected Brother,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab cdcd efef ghgh cici iXig jkjkk
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,5,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 0111011101 01111101010 10100111111 0111100010 1100111111 1110010101 11111100001 1111111111 1101110101 0111011101 1111010101 1101111111 1111010101 1101110111 1111110101 1011111101 1111110101 01011100101 1111011101 0111011111 1111010101 1111010111 1101011101 1101011011 1001010111 0101010101 1111000101 1111010101 01101110101
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 185
- Average number of words per stanza: 36
- Amount of lines: 29
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; thou, to are repeated.
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