This is an analysis of the poem To Japan that begins with:
SIMPLE You were, and good. No kindlier heart
Beat than the heart within your gentle breast.... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaaaaaaabcXcbc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 1010101101 1101011101 1111110011 1001010111 010011001001 0111010111 0100110101 0101011101 1111110100 1101101101 111010100 1100110111 1011111111 1001010101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 609
- Average number of words per stanza: 108
- Amount of lines: 14
- 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; and, you, lips, o are repeated.
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