This is an analysis of the poem Dedication - The Poems Of Goeth that begins with:

The morn arrived; his footstep quickly scared
The gentle sleep that round my senses clung,...

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  • Rhyme scheme: a ba ba bXc d ad ad aee f gf gf gaa c hc hi hff a aa aa abX c cc Xc caa a ja ja jff d kd kd kjX k gk Xk giX l jl jl Xff a ca ca caa k Xk ck Xaa c fc fc fjX a aa aaXaee
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,2,2,3,1,2,2,3,1,2,2,3,1,2,2,3,1,2,2,3,1,2,2,3,1,2,2,3,1,2,2,3,1,2,2,3,1,2,2,3,1,2,2,3,1,2,2,3,1,2,2,3,1,2,6,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 0101011101 0101111101 1110001101 1101010111 11001111101 1111110111 0101010100 1111000101 1111000101 0101110101 1111110101 1111010111 1111111101 0101010111 0111011101 1111010111 1101010101 11011101001 1101000111 11001110111 1011011101 1001010101 01010100101 11010100111 1111001101 0101010101 1111110101 1101010111 1111011100 0101010011 0111110111 1111111101 101111000111 0111110101 100110110111 0101001101 1111110111 0110010101 01111101010 010101111100 100101110101 11011011101 1111110101 0101011000 1101011101 0101001101 0101110111 1101111001 10111111111 11001111101 1101111111 1011111101 11111100111 1111111101 0111111101 11111111001 111100110111 1101110001 1001011111 1111110101 1111110100 1111000111 1111001101 10010111110 1010101110101 1101111101 1011110101 0100111110 1100111101 0101111101 1011011100 01001101010 1111011101 0101001111 0101110111 1111011101 11111011011 0111110110 0101001111 0111010101 1011111101 1001010101 1101010001 1001111111 1111010101 1001010101 1101010111 1100010101 10111111100 11001111010 1111101101 1111010101 1110010101 11010101001 0101000111 0111011101 10111111111 1101110001 1101010111 01011101011 0101010101 0101010111 0101110001 010101011000 1111110011 0111011101 011100101011 0111110101 1101010101 1111110111 11111101011 1101110111
  • Amount of stanzas: 56
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 91
  • Average number of words per stanza: 17
  • Amount of lines: 112
  • Average number of symbols per line: 45 (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; as, and, to, me, i, thy, know, of, our are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, and, then, scarce, i are repeated.

    The author used the same words the, i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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