This is an analysis of the poem The Lady Of La Garaye - Dedication that begins with:
FRIEND of old days, of suffering, storm, and strife,
Patient and kind through many a wild appeal; ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab cdcd eded afaf dgdg gdgd hdhd hihi jkjk fgfg lmlm hbhb dddd hdhd ebeb cncn hfhX hfhfXjfjf
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 10110100111 10111100101 0001001101 1011011101 0100110101 01110101001 1101011101 1011111101 1101110111 0111010101 1101110101 1111010101 0111010011 0101111101 0101011101 11010100111 11111101010 1100011101 010101010010 0101110100 11011110111 1101110111 1111110111 10110010101 11011110101 0111110101 1101011111 0111010101 1011000111 1101011101 01010010101 10010010111 0111011111 1111010101 0100100101 10010101001 1111010101 1011111101 1101011101 1101111111 1101110111 1101010111 1011011101 0011011111 0101110111 1101001101 11000101101 0011000101 1101010111 10101010101 1111000101 11010001001 11111111001 11000110100 001001011101 1011000111001 1001011101 0101101111 1111011101 1011011101 10010010101 0111010101 1111110001 1101110101 1101101101 1001110111 1101110001 1111011111 1000011101 1001011101 1101011101 1011010111 011010111111 11000111110 1011010111 10110111010
- Amount of stanzas: 19
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 182
- Average number of words per stanza: 33
- Amount of lines: 76
- Average number of symbols per line: 45 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- 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; of, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word so is repeated.
The author used the same word thou at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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