This is an analysis of the poem To Marie Louise (Shew) that begins with:
Of all who hail thy presence as the morning-
Of all to whom thine absence is the night-... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXaXXXXbaXbXbXbXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 18,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 01111101010 0101110001 01010001110 01010111011 1011111011 10101001101 0101000100 01111010001 101011100010 1111011101 1011011001 0010010011 0111111101 10010101010 01001100010 11111111011 1111110101 01000100110
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 773
- Average number of words per stanza: 140
- Amount of lines: 18
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (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; of, all, in, for are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words of, the, at are repeated.
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