This is an analysis of the poem 1819 New Year's Carrier's Address that begins with:

Believe me, dear patrons, I have wand'red too far,
Without any compass, or planet or star;... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabbaaccddbbeeeeffggaa
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 22,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 011110111011 01101011011 11101011011 111011101011 11101011101 01101011001 110010010110 101111010010 111111011111 11001101001 11011111010 11101011011 111010010110 011010110010 11011111101 001011011001 1110111000010 011100010110 110110110010 11111001010 111001111011 11011101011
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1004
  • Average number of words per stanza: 189
  • Amount of lines: 22
  • Average number of symbols per line: 45 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 9
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; as, i, happy, and, to are repeated.

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

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