This is an analysis of the poem To-- : From The French that begins with:

Must thou go, my glorious Chief,
Sever'd from thy faithful few?... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: ababcdcd cbcbecec fdfddXdX ghghiiii bhbhejej
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: ballad stanza
  • Metre: 11111001 1001101 1111101 100101101 1011101 1111001 1110111 0010111 1000101 10111001 1010101 1011111 1111011 1110111 1110111 1011111 1110101 10101101 1010101 1110101 1011111 1110101 1110101 1011110 1010001 1110101 0011101 0010101 01101001 1110101 1110011 1111111 11111101 1001101 1001101 1011101 1110001 10010111 1010101 01011101
  • Amount of stanzas: 5
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 251
  • Average number of words per stanza: 47
  • Amount of lines: 40
  • Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • 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; my, his are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word never is repeated.

    The author used the same word would at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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