This is an analysis of the poem Lines To A Reviewer that begins with:
Alas, good friend, what profit can you see
In hating such a hateless thing as me?... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccXXaaXaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 13,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 0101110111 01010100111 1011011101 0111011101 1101110001 01110011001 1111110001 110111010 1011011111 1101110111 0101010100 0110010111 0100010101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 515
- Average number of words per stanza: 102
- Amount of lines: 13
- Average number of symbols per line: 39 (medium-length strings)
- 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; in is repeated.
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