This is an analysis of the poem To An Old Quill Of Lord Dunsany's that begins with:

Before you leave my hands' abuses
To lie where many odd things meet you,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abab bcbc XXXc bdbd eaea fffX fgfg chchXgggg
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 011111010 011101111 010100010 10101011 10111111 10101110 101010011 00101110 111011000 10111010 1010101100 10111010 10100011 1011101 01101011 0010100 11011010 00101010 11101010 101010010 11101110 11101010 10101010 11101000 11101010 11101010 11101010 10111010 11110010 10101110 10001010 10001010 11111111 1111101 00101010 1001100
  • Amount of stanzas: 9
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 130
  • Average number of words per stanza: 24
  • Amount of lines: 37
  • 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; you is repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word from is repeated.

    The author used the same word you at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines you is repeated).

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