This is an analysis of the poem To My Books that begins with:

YOU, you have given me my noblest pleasures,
How many times my lips have kissed you, when...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abc abd add debd Xff ecgb edda XfXf XeaeXgXd X
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,3,3,4,3,4,4,4,8,1,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11110111010 1101111111 111111 011111 10010101 0101010 111110111110 111111 11110101 1010111111 1001000111 011110010100 110101 110101110010 10110111 1111110100110 1111111 00010010101 1101111111 1100111110 111100111111 11111111 11110011101 1111101111 111111010010 111001010101 110111111100010 101101001001 111111100101 0101111111 110101011011010 110110110011 110100111010 1101010111 1111111000 100101010101 01011010
  • Amount of stanzas: 10
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 155
  • Average number of words per stanza: 31
  • Amount of lines: 37
  • Average number of symbols per line: 41 (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; you, my, more, than, i, now, her, to are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words for, i are repeated.

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