This is an analysis of the poem A Familiar Epistle that begins with:
Alike I hate to be your debtor,
Or write a mere perfunctory letter;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbbbccddedbbffXXgghh iibbffcc bbhhjjddXeeeffkklX eellggeeccffffgglleelleedecchh eeddbbcchhddff ffaillmmffggllXjeeiieeee nneehhnnbbdXhhhhffddeenn eennllXgbb lloolXeellbbeekk hhiippcc hhddnn ffbbddeeiXll
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 22,8,18,30,14,24,24,10,16,8,6,12,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 011100110 1101010010 11010101 11001010 1110101 11001101 11110101 100101001 110100010 110111010 10010101 01011001 10110111 01010101 110100111 0111111 1011111000 00111110 11111101 11110101 11110101 01010101 111101001 11010101 01111101 11010111 11010001 11011101 11000110 01010101 11011111 11010111 10111111 11010001 10010101 11010101 10010101 10110111 10110111 110100001 10110101 01011101 11011101 01010111 11011101 010011101 110011111 0110001010 11111101 11110101 111111011 110101011 111111110 110101010 11011111 10010011 11010100 11010101 11010101 01011001 001010101 10010101 01110101 01011101 1100111110 111101011 01110101 11010100 11110101 11011101 110101010 110111010 111101010 011111010 11010111 11110001 01000101 11010101 11000111 011000101 11001101 01010101 10111101 01111101 11010101 11011101 110100111 11001101 110100111 11100011 11110101 00010100 111101010 110110110 11110110 01100111 01010101 11010101 0101111100 111101010 10110101 01110101 010111011 011101011 11110101 11110001 01000101 01010101 01010101 10011111 11010101 11010101 11011101 01010111 111111001 01010101 11111111 11011101 11100001 11010111 11111011 11111101 110111010 010011010 11111101 10010001 11011101 01010100 11110101 111101001 11110101 10010101 11111101 01001111 110010101 10110101 01111101 10010101 10111101 00010101 01010111 11011111 0101100001 11010101 010111001 11000101 111101001 110100010 10011101 01110111 1111000100 10110111001 010100010 111111010 011011011 111101110 0110111 10110101 01010101 001100101 11110101 11010101 10110101 01010101 10010001 010011001 10110101 11010101 11110101 01110101 11111101 11010111 110100111 01010101 10011101 11010101 11010011 11010111 1110011010 110011010 110100010 111101010 11101111 11111110 11011101 11111001 01011101 01110101 11111101 010101110 10110111 00010111
- Amount of stanzas: 12
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 590
- Average number of words per stanza: 103
- Amount of lines: 192
- Average number of symbols per line: 36 (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; he, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words our, and are repeated.
The author used the same word but 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 on, him are repeated).
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- summary of A Familiar Epistle;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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