This is an analysis of the poem Ode To Memory that begins with:
O Memory! Celestial maid!
Who glean'st the flowerets cropt by time;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababaa cacadd eaeaff cgcghh hihiXe cgcggg dadagX fafaiiXdcdchh
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,6,6,13,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 11000101 110100111 110010101 10010011 11110011 11111101 11110011 011100111 11110101 11110101 101100101 01011101 110101010 11010101 110111110 11110101 011111001 11010111 01011001 11011101 11110111 11011101 110100101 01110111 11110101 11010101 11011101 11011101 11011101 110111010 10010101 11010101 11110101 110101001 11011101 01010111 11111101 11100111 11011101 11010101 10111101 11111001 11010101 11010101 110100101 010111001 101111101 11010111 10111101 10110101 11010101 11000101 10010111 11110111
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 214
- Average number of words per stanza: 38
- Amount of lines: 54
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (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; bring, my 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.
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