This is an analysis of the poem The Dedication: To Cornelius that begins with:
To whom do I send this fresh little book
of wit, just polished off with dry pumice? ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XabXXbXXaX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0111101101 0111010110 01010110010 0010110110 10111010010 10011010011 111001001011 110101111110 00101101100 10111111
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 444
- Average number of words per stanza: 79
- Amount of lines: 10
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (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; to is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word to is repeated.
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