This is an analysis of the poem To A Friend In Elysium that begins with:
So long you wandered on the dusky plain,
Where flit the shadows with their endless cry, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbaaXXa cXdXcd
- 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: 1111010101 1101101101 1101110111 1101010001 1111010101 0111110100 1101111110 1111010011 1111000101 100110011 1011110101 0011111000 0111010111 0101111101
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 298
- Average number of words per stanza: 56
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (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; you, we, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words you, and are repeated.
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