This is an analysis of the poem To A Departing Favorite that begins with:
Thou mayst retire, but think of me
When thou art gone afar,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abaab babba cdccd edeed
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,5,5,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11011101 111101 100011100 01010101 110101 11011111 111110 01011101 10101101 010101 11010101 111101 01011101 11010101 010011 11011101 011101 01011001 11110101 111111
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 157
- Average number of words per stanza: 30
- Amount of lines: 20
- 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; and is repeated.
The author used the same word thou at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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