This is an analysis of the poem Epistle To My Brother George that begins with:
Full many a dreary hour have I past,
My brain bewildered, and my mind o'ercast... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXaabbXcddeeffddgg fffXaahhiiiijjggbbkkeejjbbbbXbeebb jjjjllXhmmXall ggnnggiibXkkkkaaffhhggddiihXbbbbooaallXXjjmmfceemmkkaaaabbbbhhggeellaaffaXll
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 18,34,14,76,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 11001010111 11010111100 0100010111 11011111001 0011110101 1011110101 110101011000 11010101010 1111010101 11001010101 0101111101 0101010101 1011000101 1101010101 10110101110 11010101010 1111010001 1101110101 1111111101 1011001101 0101110111 010111110 01011111110 11010010010 1101000101 0101110111 10001101010 11110101010 11110001101 00110001110 1011010101 1111111101 1101010101 1101010101 0101111101 1101001100 1101100101 1101000101 1111010101 1011110101 1101010111 1001000101 11011101110 01110111010 1111110101 1101010001 11010111010 00110100010 1100010111 1101010101 1110000101 1101010101 1101111101 1101000101 1101110101 0100010101 1111101101 01010100111 1011100100 0101110101 11010101110 10110101010 11111100010 0100110001 11110101011 11111001011 1101010001 1101100001 1111000101 1011110101 10111011101 1111010101 01010010011 1110011001 10010101110 01010011010 0101001101 1101100101 0101001110101 11110100011 1111010101 1101011101 1100010101 11110110101 1101010101 1101011101 11001100011 101010111 11010101110 11010101010 01011101110 01010011110 01001000101 010100101100 01110100101 11001111001 1101010111 1111001100 0111110101 1101100101 11010010011 1011010101 0101011101 1111110011 10110111010 10010101100 1111111101 1111011101 111101111110 11111101010 1101111110 10011000100 1111110101 1111110111 11111101010 10110101010 10110111110 11010111110 01111111010 11011111010 01001111111 1011010111 1010100101010 11010111010 0101010111 10110011001 1110010101 1101011101 1111011101 0101110101 1101011001 10110101011 1111010111 1011010101 1101110001 1011111011 1111110101 0101010101 1101110001 1101000101 1101110101 1101111101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1601
- Average number of words per stanza: 288
- Amount of lines: 142
- 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; to, it, in, that, and, i are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, and are repeated.
The author used the same word these at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines it, you, him, them are repeated).
The poet repeated the same word you at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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