This is an analysis of the poem To A Scientific Friend that begins with:
You say 'tis plain that poets feign,
And from the truth depart;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcbXdXdeXXXcfXfcabaceceXghghafa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 32,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11111101 100101 11011111 010011 10010101 0101010 10110101 1101110 11110101 01010100 11010111 11000100 01010101 111101 10010111 100101 10010111 1100101 01111101 010111 01010101 0101110 01010101 1111010 11010101 1110110 11010111 0110010 11010101 1101010 10111111 0101110
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1025
- Average number of words per stanza: 190
- Amount of lines: 32
- 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; to, and, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, the are repeated.
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- summary of To A Scientific Friend;
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- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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