This is an analysis of the poem An Ode Of Thanks For Certain Cigars that begins with:
Luck, my dear Norton, still makes shifts,
To mix a mortal with her gifts,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaa bbb ccc Xdd eee fXf gga bbb ddd hhh ccc iii aaX ddd hhh jjj hhh kkk jjj aaa bbb aXa lll mmm XaaXddd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,7,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 11110111 01010001 11111101 10010101 11111001 11010101 11110101 11011001 11010101 01011111 11101101 110010101 11110101 11010111 11110111 11110101 111101010 01111111 0100100010 1111110010 010111110 11011101 11110111 10010001 100110010 001101100 111101010 11010101 110001001 11100001 11110101 11010111 01011101 011101110 101101010 1111010110 1111010011 011101010 01111110 11010101 110101101 11011101 11110111 01110011 01110111 10110101 11011111 11100001 11001111 11010111 11010111 11101111 100011101 01011101 01011101 11110101 10011101 11011101 111001101 11010111 01010111 11111001 11111011 01110011 11011111 10010011 11111001 1010101 11010001 11110111 01011101 11010101 1100001010 111101010 1010101011 11011101 0101101101 11111001
- Amount of stanzas: 26
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 108
- Average number of words per stanza: 20
- Amount of lines: 78
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to, he, my are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.
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