This is an analysis of the poem George Meredith that begins with:
Forty years back, when much had place
That since has perished out of mind, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aba bcb cdc ddd dedXede
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,3,3,3,7,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10011111 11110101 11111111 11110101 01011101 01110101 111011111 11000101 01001101 01111111 010010011 11110001 11111101 01011011 11011111 110101101 10110101 01111110
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 110
- Average number of words per stanza: 20
- Amount of lines: 18
- 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; that is repeated.
The author used the same word he at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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