This is an analysis of the poem To A Poet Breaking Silence that begins with:
Too wearily had we and song
Been left to look and left to long,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbcXddeeXfaaaagg hhffXgiXgg gXcXiiaaggjjiiXkhhllmmjXj ggddXXaannddhhkkii
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 18,10,25,18,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11001111 01011101 11110111 11010101 01010101 11110100 1010101 11100101 01010101 01001101 01111100 10111111 010101001 01111101 1111110011 11011101 11110100 01010001 11011001 0110101 11010110 1000101 1001000 1011101 01010101 00110100 11010101 01100101 11111101 010110000 0100110010 10100100 110101001 1010111 1011101 0110110 110111101 11010101 10010101 10110100 11110101 11110111 11011101 0110001 11010101 01010101 11010100 100010111 11101110 10111010 11111101 10010100 11010011 01110101 1011101 10111010 00101110 1110101 1001000 11100111 01100101 1010001 100111011 11110101 110101001 110101001 11010001 11010111 1010001 11110011 1110101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 585
- Average number of words per stanza: 106
- Amount of lines: 71
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
- 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, to, of are repeated.
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