This is an analysis of the poem To David, About His Education that begins with:
The world is full of mostly invisible things,
And there is no way but putting the mind’s eye,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abccdeaefXecbXdefaX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 19,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 010101001001 11011110011 1010010101 110110100 111011010010 110010001010 011001011 10110110101 110111001111 101100101111 110100110011 1100101010010 001001111100 0111101010 01000110011 11010011010011 111001010001 1001101001 110110010011
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 869
- Average number of words per stanza: 171
- Amount of lines: 19
- 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; and, of, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words or, and are repeated.
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