This is an analysis of the poem To **** that begins with:
Hadst thou liv'd in days of old,
O what wonders had been told ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbbbccddeeffXghhbXffbbaaidddjjkkkkXXgg idkklldiggaaffbbaaeeXXhheehh
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 40,28,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1110101 1110101 0110100 1110111 00101110 00101010 10111110 10111010 0010111 1010101 1010001 1010101 0111101 0010101 1010100 1011101 1011101 1010001 10111001 0010100 1111111 0010001 110111010 01101010 0110101 0110101 1011100 1110101 0010111 1010101 10101001 11000101 1110101 0010001 101111 1010101 111110010 1110010 11110101 0110101 1111100 1010111 1111110 1110101 01100101 10111001 1110111 1110100 11010101 1010101 110001010 110101110 1111101 1010101 1000101 1010101 1110101 1000101 10010101 1010111 1011110 1000101 10100101 1000101 01101101 1111001 1110101 1011111
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1096
- Average number of words per stanza: 192
- Amount of lines: 68
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words in, of are repeated.
The author used the same word hadst at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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