This is an analysis of the poem An Invitation that begins with:
Come away, gentle Clare, to the banks of the Wye,
While the stars of the earth shine to gladden thine eye, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccXa ddeeffAA aXbbccAA aaaaggAA
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 101101001001 101001101011 101001101011 001011111101 101001011101 1011001101001 11111110111 001101101001 110001101101 001111011101 001011111111 1011001011111 101101001111 001001110011 110110100001 101001001001 11001001001 001011101011 101101101011 10101100111 111011011001 10011001001 110110100001 101001001001 01011101011 01101011001 010011011001 11001101001 101111111101 01101001011 110110100001 101001001001
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 407
- Average number of words per stanza: 74
- Amount of lines: 32
- Average number of symbols per line: 50 (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; to, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words while, the are repeated.
The poet repeated the same word wye at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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