This is an analysis of the poem Ix: Song: To Celia that begins with:
Drink to me, only, with thine eyes,
And I will pledge with mine;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcbabcbXdXdXdXd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 16,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10110011 110101 11011001 111111 01100111 110101 111010101 111111 11110101 1111001 11000111 011100 110111001 110101 110101111 100111
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 515
- Average number of words per stanza: 103
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (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; it is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word i is repeated.
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