This is an analysis of the poem To The Lady H.O. that begins with:

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COME o'er the green hills to the sunny sea! ... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: a ababcbcbX dededfdfX ececghghX XiXijkjka lglgclcla aeaebhbhX hiXXlalXX memebdbd
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,8,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 1 11001100101 0101110101 1101010111 1101010101 11010100101 1111010101 1100010101 1111011101 1 1101110011 1001010001 1111101101 1111011101 1101010111 111101100101 1101010111 1101010101 1 1101111101 01001000101 1111000101 1101110101 0101011111 0111110101 11011100101 1101100101 1 1111001101 0111011101 1101010111 1011010001 11101100101 1001000010010 1001011101 11011101010 1 11010100101 1011111101 1101011101 11001010101 1111011111 1111011101 0101111111 1111110101 1 1111010101 01101110001 1111011101 0111110011 1011110100 111111001110 1111110111 11110110010 1 1111001101 1100010101 011101111 101111111 1110110101 1101011111 11001101001 1110011000 1 1011011011 00110101001 11101100101 1101000111 10010101001 1101010111 11011101001 1111010111
  • Amount of stanzas: 9
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 336
  • Average number of words per stanza: 58
  • Amount of lines: 72
  • Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, both are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word those is repeated.

    The author used the same word come at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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