This is an analysis of the poem My Most Distinguished Guest And Learned Friend that begins with:
My most Distinguished Guest and Learned Friend,
The pallid hare that runs before the day...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcdcdaeaeXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: Shakespearean sonnet
- Metre: 110101111 0101110101 10111010011 1111101101 1001000101 1101010101 11110011100 1001011111 0111111001 1111000101 1111011011 1111101100 111111101110 1111011111
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 602
- Average number of words per stanza: 117
- Amount of lines: 14
- 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; i is repeated.
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More information about poems by Edna St. Vincent Millay
- Analysis of The Fledgling
- Analysis of Two Sonnets In Memory
- Analysis of Sonnet 04: Not In This Chamber Only At My Birth
