This is an analysis of the poem The Token that begins with:
Send me some token, that my hope may live,
Or that my easeless thoughts may sleep and rest;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcdcdefefgbgb hh
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 16,2,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1111011111 11110011111 1111001111 1011011101 1111010111 0111000101 0111110101 01010111111 1111100100 1101011101 1101000100 0111110011 111101110 11010011101 1101111100 0101011101 11101100111 1111111111
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 407
- Average number of words per stanza: 76
- Amount of lines: 18
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (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; my, that, may, in, most are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word of is repeated.
The author used the same word send at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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