This is an analysis of the poem To A Lady, Who Presented To The Author A Lock Of Hair Braided With His Own, And Appointed A Night In December To Meet Him In The Garden that begins with:

These locks, which fondly thus entwine,
In firmer chains our hearts confine... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabbccaXddeeaaaaccaXXfaaXaaaggaaaahhffbbbbff
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 44,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: limerick
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11110101 01011101 1111001110 110101010 110111110 111111110 110011111 01010010 010111010 100111010 1111110010 110101010 110101110 1100101110 010101110 1001010010 11011101 11110100 1101101010 000101000 11110101 110101110 110111010 110101010 110010000 110101010 010011010 111101010 111100110 110101010 111101010 110111010 11111111 010100001 101111111 011101111 1111110010 110011010 1101111001 11010101 10110101 11101001 111101010 111111010
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1612
  • Average number of words per stanza: 285
  • Amount of lines: 44
  • Average number of symbols per line: 36 (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; nor, to are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words with, since are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines it, you are repeated).

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