This is an analysis of the poem The Invitation that begins with:
HEALTH to my friend, and long unbroken years,
By storms unruffled and unstain'd by tears:... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbaa ccddaaeebbaa Xaaaf faacceeaaaagghhXae eiiaahhaa bbhhffff jjbbkkeeaaaakkkkhh kk ggaabbllmmkkkkX ennaakXXXllffeeffk kooaaddcXaammffppg gnn aaaaffkkkkaagg kkcceebb eillaaaak kff ccaaaaggffaall ffXiiddll
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,12,5,18,9,8,18,2,15,18,18,3,14,8,9,3,14,9,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1011110100 1101010111 1111111011 01101111001 101111111001 1101010101 1101011001 1101010101 01001110101 0100110101 01010111001 0101010101 0101010101 0011010101 0101110101 1101010101 0101010101 1101000101 1101010110 11011000101 1101010101 0101110101 1011010101 0011010101 1111010101 0101010101 1101010101 1101000101 11010110001 0011000111 0101010101 1101100101 1101010101 1101010101 10101010111 0101010111 1111011001 1101010101 1011010110 11001010101 0101011101 011100110001 11011101010 11110000010 0111110101 1101000101 0101010101 110100100101 1101001101 1101010111 0101110101 1111010101 1101011101 10111101001 1111011111 10011010101 11010110101 1111010101 01010100101 1011000101 1001010101 01010111001 01010010101 101100011 1011010111 1101011101 0100010101 0111010101 1101011001 1101011111 1101010101 1101010101 1101010101 11100101011 1101010111 11010011101 0101010101 1101010101 1101011101 0101111101 1101011101 0100011100 11011101101 11001010101 1101010111 1101010101 0101011101 11010010101 01101010101 1101010101 1101011101 1101000101 01010111010 1101010101 010111101001 1101010101 11010101001 1111010101 1111010101 1011010110 1101010111 11001010101 1101010101 10111101001 1101100101 0101110101 1101010111 1101011000101 1101010101 11001110101 110011101001 1101001101 1001100101 1101010101 11011110010 1101111101 0101110101 0101110001 01011101001 1011010010 1101010111 1101010101 1101010001 11011101001 11010100101 1101010101 11001010101 11010100101 1101010101 11100110100 1101011101 1101010101 1101010101 1010100100 1001011101 010101111 0101010001 1111010101 110010100101 1101000111 0101001111 1001011101 1001011101 0111101001 0101111001 10111111101 1101110101 110101001 010010100101 1101001101 11111100111 1001110101 1001011101 1111001101 1101010101 01010100010 0101011101 1101001111 11010010101 01010101001 1001011001 1100010101 11110100111 0101110101 0101010101 110101110101 01001001101 1011000101 01010110101 1100010001 01001010101 1011110101 1001010101 0101010101 0101000101 1101010101 1101010101 1101010101 1011010011 0101110101 10111110101 1111000101 111111001010 01010101010 0101110101 1101010111 11011101001 11010011001
- Amount of stanzas: 19
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 440
- Average number of words per stanza: 74
- Amount of lines: 191
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; by, and, her, from, here are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words from, the, and, with are repeated.
The author used the same word the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:
- summary of The Invitation;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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