This is an analysis of the poem To F-- that begins with:

Beloved! amid the earnest woes
That crowd around my earthly path-... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: abaabaa cdccdXd
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,7,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: sonnet with iambic tetrameter or irregular meter
  • Metre: 010010101 11011101 110111 1101101 11110101 01011011 1100101 111100001 11010111 0111001 11010111 011111 100101000 110111101
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 264
  • Average number of words per stanza: 39
  • Amount of lines: 14
  • Average number of symbols per line: 37 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; some is repeated.

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