This is an analysis of the poem An Honest Valentine that begins with:

Returned from the Dead-Letter Office
THANK you for your kindness, ... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: a ababcdcddede fefefgffeeee ceceggfgeeeehihihjhjkbkbkeke fXfXhihifdfdcece fjfjkXkeglglmeme
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,12,12,28,16,16,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 010011010 111110 10111 111110 10111 101010 11011 110010 01111 111110 11101 1110010 10101 101110 01111 101010 10101 101110 11111 101010 101010 111010 11101 100010 11101 111110 10101 101010 11111 101011 10111 101010 10101 110110 10111 110010 11101 101110 11111 011011 11101 111110 10001 011110 11011 111110 01111 1010110 01111 101010 00101 111110 11101 011110 11101 100010 10101 011010 11111 111010 11101 111110 11101 111110 11111 111010 10101 101010 01101 111010 11111 111010 10101 101010 11111 111010 11101 111011 111001 111111 11101 111110 11111 111010 10101
  • Amount of stanzas: 6
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 356
  • Average number of words per stanza: 61
  • Amount of lines: 85
  • Average number of symbols per line: 24 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 4
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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