This is an analysis of the poem With The Laurel that begins with:

To Edmund Clarence Stedman on his seventieth birthday, October 8,1903
Who wears this crown-greater than kings may wear-... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: X abbaabba cdecde
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,8,6,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: limerick
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: rondeau
  • Metre: 0101010101000110101 1101101111 0110010101 1111011101 1000110111 1001011101 11010000101 0001010101 1001010101 110010111001 01110010111 11101010101 1001110001 1101010101 1101100101
  • Amount of stanzas: 3
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 251
  • Average number of words per stanza: 43
  • Amount of lines: 15
  • Average number of symbols per line: 49 (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 is repeated.

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