This is an analysis of the poem To Celia that begins with:
If I recall and read again
those days in love’s...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcb decb fcfb abae cgfc eahi dcXj gbck Xici dfcb lbgX hbbb jclb bbkg fcXf bhmb bbkn cbbb bbdb kdal fmXc fnXb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 01011101 11011101 11010111 110010111 0101111 110111 11111101 0101010101 01110101 01001100 11010111 010101110 1111 110111 1010101 1111011 11110100 01011101 1111101011 10010011 0101001 1101101 11110101 110111 11101 11110111 1001010110101 11101010 11011101 110010111 11010101 110110111 0101110 0100011101 1111101011 11011101 11110101 00100101100 00101011111 01011111 11010111 01000101 11111111 01110101 111111111 1111111 10101001101 10101110101 111101 101110011 010100111 11111101 10101011 11110111 10011101 11011111 11110 0010111 110001110 10111011 010111 11110101 1011101010011 0101110111 10110011 1101011 01111111 110010111 010111 0111110111 10100101 10011100 0101001101 1101001010 001001101 0101000101 1101010101 10110110011 111011001 1011011 110111 0100010101 11010111 010101111 101011 1011011011 1110101010100 1011111010
- Amount of stanzas: 22
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 221
- Average number of words per stanza: 27
- Amount of lines: 88
- Average number of symbols per line: 57 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, and, your, my are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
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- summary of To Celia;
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