This is an analysis of the poem To His Sister Paolina, that begins with:
ON HER APPROACHING MARRIAGE.
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Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: a bcdbefghijhiiff gkiiikbddidlfii ceeiffgbggXjiii iiiilfiXgmcfmkk ifddaiiefeffcff XffeXXflefdfdhX ijXkifXdfnnkemm
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,15,15,15,15,15,15,15,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1001010 11110101 110101 1101010101 110110101 1001010111 1001110101 1100111101 11001100 1101101101 0111010101 11010100 0101010111 11010101 110010101 1011110001 1111011100 0101000101 1011010101 01010101 0101101101 1111110011 11110101 00011111 110101 11111101 1111010111 1101010101 1001010101 0101010101 01110100 10011101 10010001 1110110011 10110011 0101100101 1101011 0111011111 11011111 0101011101 11111101 11110101010 1111010111 110111010 110011101 11110111 10010101 010111 1101010101 11000101 11011001 11010101 11010101 11010101 111101 1101010101 0100011101 01010110101 01110111 0111111111 01011011101 01001001 111101 110101 1101110001 0101000101 01010111010 1111111011 01010101 0101000101 01000101 10110101 01011111 11000011 01010101 1101010101 010111 01010111 1101110101 1101101111 101100110 110101 1101010101 00101 1111010111 110111 1111110101 10100101 011101 1011111100 1101111111 101101 1101010111 1111111100 11000101 0101110101 0100010101 01010101100 010111 0101010001 01101010101 0101010101 0101000101 110101 11110101001 0101010101
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 492
- Average number of words per stanza: 89
- Amount of lines: 107
- Average number of symbols per line: 36 (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; and, you, these, his, to, of, thy are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, these, and, his, to are repeated.
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