This is an analysis of the poem To Emma Abbott that begins with:
There--let thy hands be folded
Awhile in sleep's repose;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abccXXaadbeed XfbbXfggdehhd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 13,13,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111010 010101 01011101 11001101 010011 111111 01111001 1100101001 010 111111 110101 1001 10010 1111010 011111 100101001 11010101 010001 011001 11001101 01000111 11010 110101 111111 0111 110010
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 399
- Average number of words per stanza: 66
- Amount of lines: 26
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; dream is repeated.
The poet repeated the same word morrow at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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