This is an analysis of the poem To Silvia that begins with:
Silvia, let us from the crowd retire,
For what to you and me... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXa bcbc XaXa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1001100101 110111 111101010 011111 01111101 110111 11010101 001111 01010100 1110001 11111101 0101001
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 120
- Average number of words per stanza: 23
- Amount of lines: 12
- 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.
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