This is an analysis of the poem To A Friend that begins with:
ON HER RETURN FROM EUROPE.
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Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: X aabcccb debfffb Xdghhhg iidjjjd jjgdddg kkklllk hhdeccd mmcdddc kkdjjjd kkgcccg nnbcccb ccdoood
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1001010 110101 101111 11010 110011 1001101 101101 10010 110101 1001010 11010 001111 100111 101111 10110 11100 110010 010110 1101101 110101 001101 00110 110100 1000101 10110 111101 110101 1011001 10110 111101 101101 10010 101101 110111 1001101 11110 111101 1100101 11110 110101 101011 1010101 10110 110111 011101 101101 001100 111111 110101 1011101 111101 110101 11011 1001001 101101 1100101 10011 111101 101101 01110 110111 1110111 100111 11110 110111 101001 10110 101101 101101 100101 10110 100101 001101 00110 111101 111111 11011001 10010 110110 111101 10110 111101 101101 101101 10010
- Amount of stanzas: 13
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 167
- Average number of words per stanza: 29
- Amount of lines: 85
- Average number of symbols per line: 25 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 4
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word new is repeated.
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