This is an analysis of the poem I Grieved For Buonaparte that begins with:

I GRIEVED for Buonaparte, with a vain
And an unthinking grief! The tenderest mood... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abbaababcddcdc
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Metre: 111100001 11010101001 0111110011 1011110111 1101010111 0100110110 1100010001 1100111101 1011010101 1100110101 11011100101 0011011001 1111110001 11011110111
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 638
  • Average number of words per stanza: 117
  • Amount of lines: 14
  • Average number of symbols per line: 45 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 8
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; what, and are repeated.

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