This is an analysis of the poem To Wisdom that begins with:
O WISDOM! if thy soft controul
Can sooth the sickness of the soul,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Xabbcc ddcc eeffggaahhiijjXXcc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,4,18,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 11001110 11010001 11010101 11010101 10111101 11010001 10110101 01010111 01110101 11101101 001111110 010111010 11010001 110011111 101100101 11010101 01010101 11011101 10100101 1010101 1011101 1110101 10101001 11011101 11010101 01011101 1111110 01011101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 321
- Average number of words per stanza: 57
- Amount of lines: 28
- 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; and is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words can, to, hail are repeated.
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