This is an analysis of the poem Envoi that begins with:

Go, dumb-born book,
Tell her that sang me once that song of Lawes:...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XaXbbXXaXcXcddXXaXaXaadbbb
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 26,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1111 1011111101 1111 111011 1011011101 10111100111 1101010100 1011 110001 1011110101 10010 11101 1101010101 1101010111 1101110 101 1011 010101 11110111 010001101 101110 1011010100 1111010101 1011000100 111101 1111001
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 819
  • Average number of words per stanza: 154
  • Amount of lines: 26
  • Average number of symbols per line: 31 (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; that is repeated.

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  • summary of Envoi;
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