This is an analysis of the poem Middle-Age Enthusiasms that begins with:
To M. H.
WE passed where flag and flower... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: X ababcc dedeXX fdfdXX dcdXcX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,6,6,6,6,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 011 1111110 100101 11100010 0101101 11011111 11111111 111111 101101 110111 1110101 1111110000 11011101 1100111 101101 010101 1011101 11101111100 11010111 101010011 1010111 111111 01110100 100111000101 1101011100
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 203
- Average number of words per stanza: 29
- Amount of lines: 25
- Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, we are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word we is repeated.
The author used the same word we at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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