This is an analysis of the poem Letter To Sainte-Beuve that begins with:
On the old oak benches, more shiny and polished
than links of a chain that were, each day, burnished...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbbXccdXcceaffgbgbgghhggXdiijfeafXjbjfggaaffffiXXgggbXggiXkkddjjjfXeaagggXif
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 78,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101110110110 11001101110 11110111110 110101110 10011100101 1011101111 0101111011000 101010101100 10111010110 01001001110 101001010010 01100101010 101011011010 11010100010 110010100101 10101010101 1110100101 10111100101 10101011001 01110101 0010111101 10100101001 1101010101 1101001101 01001001011 1010101111 110101111010 10100110110 11011011001 1101110101 01111101010 010111011 10101011001 1111111011 110101011001 010010111000 01010010100 1100101001 11101011100 1011010111 001010001010 011110011110 11010101011 1010100100011 1001001011101 01010111111 1001111000111 10111001011 1111111001 010100100101 10101001010 01101001010 01110010110 01001000100100 001001010111 11011011010 1001001010001 00101100101 010100101111 1110010111 000101001010 1100100010010 010111110010 101101001110 011101111100 111110011100 01001010100100 001111110101 101110111000 10010110101 10001011011100 10101110100101 10011101010 0110011110 01001111110 11010110110 10111010111 1111100101001
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 3699
- Average number of words per stanza: 644
- Amount of lines: 78
- Average number of symbols per line: 46 (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; to, of, when, their, your, with are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words her, when, the are repeated.
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- summary of Letter To Sainte-Beuve;
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