This is an analysis of the poem To Doctor Lang that begins with:
Little, perhaps, thou valuest verse of mine—
Little hast read of what my hand has wrought, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababbaabcdcddc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 1001110101 1011011111 11011100101 01010011111 1101010101 1101110101 0011001101 01011001111 1111001111 1111010101 10001011111 0111110111 1011011101 10101111111
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 704
- Average number of words per stanza: 113
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 49 (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.
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