This is an analysis of the poem On Revisiting Harrow that begins with:
Here once engaged the stranger's view
Young Friendship's record simply traced;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab bcXc dede cfcf
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11010101 11001101 10011111 10010101 10111101 01000111 11010111 110010101 01010101 010110101 110010111 11010101 11001110 110101010 11011101 110101110
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 152
- Average number of words per stanza: 25
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 37 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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- summary of On Revisiting Harrow;
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- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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