This is an analysis of the poem To Robert Batty, M.D., On His Giving Me A Lock Of Milton's Hair that begins with:

It lies before me there, and my own breath
Stirs its thin outer threads, as though beside ... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: abbaabba bbcbcX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,6,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: limerick
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Metre: 0101111111 1011011101 01011101001 1001011101 0111011101 10110111011 1101010101 0111101101 1101011001 00010010101 0111010001 0100111001 10110001001 0101000100
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 308
  • Average number of words per stanza: 55
  • Amount of lines: 14
  • Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 8
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; his, it are repeated.

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