This is an analysis of the poem To A Poet That Died Young that begins with:
Minstrel, what have you to do
With this man that, after you,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccdd eeffbb gghhaaeeXhhdddd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,6,15,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1011101 0011101 1011101 1110100 1001101 1010011 1011101 1010111 1111101 1011001 1010101 1010101 1011001 1010101 10010101 1100101 1011101 1010101 1010001 1011101 1111111 11100001 1011101 0001111 1011101 10011001 1110101 1010011
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 212
- Average number of words per stanza: 40
- Amount of lines: 28
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- 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; and is repeated.
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