This is an analysis of the poem When Lilacs Last In The Dooryard Bloom'D that begins with:
from Memories of President Lincoln
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- Rhyme scheme: a X bcd dce X fcfgh X XaeXai X jdXkd clg X jgkXjea X kbidcjjmandji X ado jjcjlo X acccaplccXa X phlgg X bae cdce X jje jcfifjjd X bkna njcajb X bjj dl qqcg X okkjabqjfcho ggjcXh gge jhb gcb odXo kkjo cmhX Xbgo Xgdc flog dbjo X hbc mmc Xj jjmnka mmfccbbb X
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,1,3,3,1,5,1,6,1,5,3,1,7,1,13,1,3,6,1,11,1,5,1,3,4,1,3,8,1,4,6,1,3,2,4,1,12,6,3,3,3,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,1,3,3,2,6,8,1,10,13,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0100010110 1 111100101 101110100101001 11111101001001 100100110010111 111001001101001 110111 1 110010101 1101110101 11110110111101 1101111100110101 110101101111 1 0010101111101110 101111100111011 01001010101000001111 01001010010010010 010010101111011 01001011 1 0010010100 011101010001 101001 010010010100100 110101 100101 1111011111011 0111100111101 1 10010001010110 011111111001001001100101 010100111001100101 10010101100100100111100 100101101110010 1000101011001 11110010 1 101101111 1111001110001 0010010010010101 0010010110111010 001011101010001 001010100101010101001 00101000101010110 010101001010101110 01010100010101010 0111010100101011110 0010101001 11011010 11101011 1 1111101 101101010111 11101011110111111101 11001010 11110101011010 110110111101 1001111010010 0101111011 11101010111 1 110110010 11111111101111 11101000101001 111111001111011101 111001111001110101111 1110010010111011111101 10101111101001111001 111101010010010101 111111111001001001 11100100101111111 0101001111 1 111001 1101011011111111 111110011011 1010110101011011 0110101111101 1 111110111011111 111111110111111 11110101010111 11100111 100101110010111101010 1101101011 101010111 1 1111110101 1110100111101 001010010111 10010011111 0011111110111011 010010100101001011001001 00111010110111001010 0010001010100100011111 0101101010010101111 1010110101111010 1101011011101010010 1 1101101 11010011010011001101 0101101011010010101110010 110011010100111 101100111110 0100110101110 0101110001 0100101010011 01010100101101 101101010100111 1 11111111 100101001110010 10010011001011 111010101101 11010101001 11011110 111101111010 110111011110101 101101001011 1 1111001111 001001001101001101001011 001110100011001110 001001001010001111 1001010001011101010010110 010101111101111 1010010010101110010 101001011011111100110100010100 101111010101011111 1001011010101001001 0101010111 11110110101001 10010011101101 10101110010101 110010100101110010010 11100100101111 10010010011010010 0010100101010111 101011001011 011111011111 111010011011111 01010100 0010101010111 1010001 101001011 11110111111001 10101101001001 1101101 1011010100010010 0010010101 101101001 100100101 11111110110100 111111111 1011001011001 11011101011 1110110101010 11101111011011 111011111011110000 0111000 10011111001100101 10010101001 1000101111 010111000 1011101010110011011 10100101110111110 111011011101 01010101001 0101101010011111 1011001111111 101010010101 1001111101 100101101100100110101 1001110110101011 1101001010111 1 0010011 111110111 0101001101001 10011101 10010110101 1101111001 111111011100 1011000010 11110010 11101001100101 1101001011010110 110101110111110 111101111011010 101110110 1110101000 101100011110 11001101010110001 111101111 101010111101 0100111001010 10110110101110 101010110 1 100101001 1010001011001 100100101101001011 0100111111100101001 111101101101101001 101011011011011011001 10001110010010 111001001110100 10111110111 1111001110010001 1101111 01111001100101001 111100101001 11011110001001 01010100111 10100101001011 0010110100100101 001010111001001 111110011110010011011111 1010101011111101011 1111111001011 1001011010111
- Amount of stanzas: 58
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 209
- Average number of words per stanza: 38
- Amount of lines: 223
- Average number of symbols per line: 54 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 10
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; in, and, o, star, with, passing, of, for, i, you, as, to, night, hear, sea, blown, from, sing, on, all, death, praise, thee, when, over, saw, suffer'd, song, yet are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words o, with, amid, passing, as, and, the, sing, in, from, over, i are repeated.
The author used the same words lo, sing 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 night, me, walls, them, suffer'd, thee are repeated).
The poet repeated the same words death, love, bird, night at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase song connects the lines.
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