This is an analysis of the poem The Noble Balm that begins with:
HIGH-SPIRITED friend,
I send nor balms nor cor'sives to your wound:... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaaabbccadda aaaaeeccfdXf
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,12,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11001 11111100011 1111 0101110101 0101101100 1101101100 111101 111101 1111010101 100101 1001001001 1101 11001 1001110011 1101 1101010101 0111011111 0110010011 111111 011111 1101110101 110111 11011101000 1001
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 398
- Average number of words per stanza: 75
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (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; you is repeated.
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