This is an analysis of the poem To Asra that begins with:
Are there two things, of all which men possess,
That are so like each other and so near,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcdcdeXebXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: Shakespearean sonnet
- Metre: 1111011101 1111110111 11001110100 11010011001 0111010111 1001011111 11010111001 0111111101 1101010111 01110101010 0111010101 1110010111 0101110101 1110010110100
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 610
- Average number of words per stanza: 112
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (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; and is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word now is repeated.
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