This is an analysis of the poem Lines To ------. that begins with:
Short was the season of our intercourse
And born, it seem'd, of wayward accident,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcXcXadXdeeddXXff
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 20,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1101001101 1101010100 1101110110 1101011101 0101111101 10010100101 1011101101 11111101110 0011010100 1001110101 1001010100 01010111111 1101101111 1011010101 1101011101 1001011111 1101011011 11110010110 1001101111 0011011111
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 885
- Average number of words per stanza: 159
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (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; my, and are repeated.
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