This is an analysis of the poem L’envoi: Brussels, Hotel Du Midi that begins with:
IT'S copied out at last: very poor stuff
Writ in the cold, with pauses of the cramp. ... full text
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXXXbXXbXab
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 0101111011 1001010001 0111000110 111101110 1101011111 10011101101 0101110101 1101101111 1100110100 1101010111 1101011111 1011010101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 528
- Average number of words per stanza: 96
- Amount of lines: 12
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (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; and, to, it are repeated.
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