This is an analysis of the poem To Charles Lloyd that begins with:
A stranger, and alone, I past those scenes
We past so late together; and my heart... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbcdcedaffXXbbggaXeXa X
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 22,1,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 0101011111 1111010111 1101010111 0111011101 1101010111 1101111111 1110011111 0101000101 0111010101 0101011111 0111010101 1110110101 0011011101 0101011101 1011010111 1111111111 1101011111 10011001001 1101011011 1111011101 1111011011 1011100101 101
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 476
- Average number of words per stanza: 94
- Amount of lines: 23
- Average number of symbols per line: 40 (medium-length strings)
- 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; and, to, of, i, his are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines him is repeated).
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