This is an analysis of the poem To My Old Schoolmaster that begins with:
AN EPISTLE NOT AFTER THE MANNER OF HORACE
Old friend, kind friend! lightly down... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: a bbaXccbbddeeffdddd gghhiiiihhjjeeaakkXlXdddfiiffhheemmnnXo iiddcceebbfX eeeeddhhddXXppdd ffddXeiibXbbccee ddddeeeeppeeiiddiXaaiieedd ffqeerraXpphhnnbbXghhhhfX bbnnhhlXqqoorrpXbbdddppsseeffhhddddgglXjjpp
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,18,39,12,16,16,26,25,43,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1010110010010 1111101 1111111 1001111 1011100 1110111 1000101 1010101 1010101 1100111 1010101 1011111 0010101 1011111 1010111 1011101 1010111 1111101 1010111 1010101 0111101 1010111 10010101 1110100 0110011 10101001 011111 1011101 1010111 1011111 0011101 1011101 0010101 1110100 0110100 1011101 0100101 1010100 1010101 1011100 1110001 1110111 10101010 10110001 1010100 0110101 10010101 1010111 1110101 1011101 10100111 1010011 1010001 0010111 11100101 1011101 10100101 1010101 1010101 10010101 1010101 1000111 1110011 1000111 1111101 11001001 1010111 11100101 0010011 1010101 1010101 1110111 1011111 1110101 1001101 10100101 1010111 1011101 1010111 1000001 1010111 1001100 1011001 1010101 1001101 01101101 10001101 0010001 1011011 1010001 1110110 1110001 1000100 1011111 1110101 10111100 1110101 1001100 0111101 1101111 1110111 10100101 1110101 1010111 1010111 1111101 10101001 1011101 1010101 1111111 1110111 1010101 1011101 10100101 1011101 1011111 1000011 1010001 1110101 1111100 1010101 1011101 10111010 11101010 10110001 1000101 11100101 1110101 10100111 1110110 1110100 1011101 1011100 1010111 1010101 1010101 10101000 1010101 1010101 1110101 1111111 0011101 1000101 0010111 1011101 1110101 0011101 1111111 01000100 1010101 1011101 1110111 1001000 1110101 1110101 1111101 1010101 1110111 10100111 1011111 1010100 11101110 10101110 1100101 1111101 1010101 0010101 10100111 10110110 1111101 1010111 1010011 00110001 1010101 01111001 1000101 1011101 1010101 1010101 1010101 1010111 1010001 1011101 1000101 1010101 1010101 1111111 0110001 1110111 1111011 0010101 1011100 1000111 1000111 1110111 1110101
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 668
- Average number of words per stanza: 118
- Amount of lines: 196
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word never is repeated.
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