This is an analysis of the poem To Emeline that begins with:
I would enshrine in silvern song
The charm that bore our souls along,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaba ccdc eefe cXXc ggfg XcdX hhdh iibX jjXj ccdc ffbf ccXc X
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,1,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11010101 01111101 100111010 110100101 11010101 11011101 110110010 10100111 110011001 11110101 100101010 1000100111 110111011 01111100 001111010 111100101 11011101 01111111 01011010 110110111 11111100 11111101 110111010 101111001 11010101 01110111 110110010 110100101 100010001 10111101 011111010 1101001110 11110111 01010101 010101010 1000110101 11110101 111011001 111101010 101110101 110010101 11010001 110101110 01000111 11110101 11010101 110111100 110111111 0101
- Amount of stanzas: 13
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 135
- Average number of words per stanza: 26
- Amount of lines: 52
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (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; of, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
The author used the same word when at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of To Emeline;
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- idea of the verse;
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