This is an analysis of the poem To Dr. John Brown: Sonnets that begins with:
BEYOND the north wind lay the land of old
Where men dwelt blithe and blameless, clothed and fed... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaaaaaaabbcbcX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 0101110101 1111110111 0111010111 0101010101 1111010101 01010011111 11001010101 1111111101 0111111101 0101100001 0101110110 01011100011 110010001001 1111010100
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 633
- Average number of words per stanza: 122
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, s are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.
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