This is an analysis of the poem On The Pleasures Of College Life that begins with:
With tears I leave these academic bowers,
And cease to cull the scientific flowers; ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccaaaaaaddbbbb bbccbbaaeeffbbggaaeehh ccgghhiiccjjkkXaXjllddfi aaddiikkccjjeeXhccbbjja iiiaaXdbbaahhbbeeXemmi ibbnneennooiihhoommaappb biieeifkkaabbhhbbhhapbb cXjjhhiijjccnnXieeccffnna annbbaaifeeqqccbbXabb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 18,22,24,23,22,24,23,25,21,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 01111101010 11010101010 0111010101 1111000101 0111110111 0101010101 0101010101 1101010101 0101010101 11011100101 1101010011 1101011111 1101011101 0101010101 1101010111 0111010101 1101010110 0101010001 1101010101 1101010001 1111010101 1101010111 11010111001 1111011111 1101010101 1101010101 0101110101 0101010101 11010101010 110101010010 101110111001 0101111101 1101010101 1101010101 1111010101 1101010101 11011001101 1101000101 1101110101 1101000101 11010010110 1001110101 11010010101 1101010101 1110110101 0101010001 0111010101 1101000101 1111010101 0111001101 1001001101 1101011101 1101011101 0101010101 1111011000 1100011101 1100010101 1001000101 1101000110 1101010101 1101010101 1101010101 1100111010 1101010101 110101001 1101010111 1101011101 0101010101 1111010101 1001010111 0101010101 11001011101 1001011101 1001010101 1111010101 1111010111 0100110001 1101110101 0100110110 1001001111 1111110111 0111000101 01001001001 0101010101 1001010111 1001010111 1101010101 1101010101 01010010001 1101010101 1001010011 0100111110001 1101010101 1101010101 0101100101 1101010111 01011100011 0111010101 10011010101 1101010101 1101010101 1101010101 11001011101 0111111101 10010101100 110101001 10010001111 0101011101 11011001001 1101010111 0100000101 11010010001 01000010001 11010010001 1110010101 01111101001 1001010101 1110101101 1101000101 1101110101 0101010101 110101111 1001010101 1101010001 10001000101 0101010011 1101011101 1101011001 01000010010 1101010101 0101010101 01011100101 1001010101 1101010111 01010101001 110101011101 1101011101 1101001101 01001100001 11011101110 10000101001 100111001 11011101010 11010111010 1101011100 0111011111 110111101 1111010001 11010010101 0100010001 1101010101 1101110101 1111000101 0101010101 0111000101 1111110001 1001011001 1101010010 11001001101 1101010101 1011010101 0111010001 0101010101 1101110101 1001110101 11001110101 1101010101 0100111001 0101111111 0111011111 010100111010 11010010101 1011010111 0111111101 110011101 1111010101 01010001110 01010111010 1001011101 1110000101 10011101110 01010101010 0100110101 0111010101 1101010101 1101010001 1101010101 0101110001 1110010101 11010101110 1001010001 1101010101 1001010101 11010100111 1101011101 1101010101 1101010101 0101000101 1101001000 0101010001 11010001010 01010101010
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 979
- Average number of words per stanza: 167
- Amount of lines: 202
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- 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; with, of, and, to, her, we are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, and, whose, where, a, thy are repeated.
The author used the same word or at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines flesh is repeated).
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