This is an analysis of the poem Memories that begins with:
O spirit of the mountain that speaks to us to-night,
Your voice is sad, yet still recalls past visions of delight,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AabX ccaa ddee ffgg bbhX iiXX XXaa XXXj aagj XXXXXAahh
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1100010110101 11011101110001 110111000110111 0101110011101 11011100110001 11010101010001 01110101011101 0100011010101 110111010101001 11110101010101 01010111110101 10111001110101 011011000010111 11010101010101 1011010010111 11010110010101 11000111010101 110100101010101 11001010110101 11010101011100 1101010011111 0101110010101 11011110011101 11010100101100 110011100111100 110101010010110 110101110011001 10010100010101 11111101010010 1001001010100 10110011100100 101011101001100 1101110011111 11110100111101 11011101010101 11010100110100 1001010 10111010 1011010 10111010 1100010110101 0101111110101 1111110111101 11010101110110
- Amount of stanzas: 11
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 223
- Average number of words per stanza: 39
- Amount of lines: 44
- Average number of symbols per line: 55 (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; of, and, with, brigadier are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, brigadier are repeated.
The author used the same word and 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 ' is repeated).
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