This is an analysis of the poem A New Year's Message To Joseph Mazzini that begins with:

Send the stars light, but send not love to me.
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Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aX a bbccddd X cceeXff X aXgghXh X eeXcXdd X ccccaaa X eecciii X Xgggddd
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,1,7,1,7,1,7,1,7,1,7,1,7,1,7,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1011111101 10 1 100101011 11110011 11111111 11001 10010011 01010111 10011101 1 11100111 10010101 11000111 1101 10111110 010011111 11111111 1 11100110 10111100 11110011 1101 10010111 010110011 01111101 1 11011111 11001101 100101000 11010 011010100 01111111 01011111 1 111101101 10110101 11111101 0101 01110101 00110111 00111101 1 11110001 11000100 11011101 1101 10110101 11111111 01011101 1 11111011 01110101 11011111 1111 10110101 11010011 01000101
  • Amount of stanzas: 15
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 114
  • Average number of words per stanza: 22
  • Amount of lines: 58
  • Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • 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; and, to are repeated.

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