This is an analysis of the poem To George Felton Mathew that begins with:
Sweet are the pleasures that to verse belong,
And doubly sweet a brotherhood in song; ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbXcddaa eXffccdXggaahhiiXejj kkccccllaadXffaammaaXX cciihhddnnaagggnndd ddnXcXooaahhcchhnnppdd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,20,22,19,22,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 1101010101 1101010101 1101010101 0111000111 11010101010 1001101101 01010001010 01001101010 10010101010 01111110110 1101111101 110100110 1111011101 110010011101 10110010110 11010111110 11010011001 1011001101 1111001101 1111011011 11011100010 110100010010 1011001001 1011000111 1011010111 0111011001 1001011101 11001111101 1101011101 010110101 1111110101 0011011111 0011011101 1101000101 11001110101 11001010011 110010101010 11011101010 11110101110 110010011110 101101001010 01010111010 1001010111 0011011101 1111110101 11010001111 0101010101 1001000101 100111001010 110101011100 11010101110 01111101110 1001110111 0101111101 1111010011 1111111100 11110101011 1100101010101 010011101010 11110101110 11110111010 11010101010 0111001101 010010111 11010011111 0110010101 0111001001 01110101010 11011101010 1001011101 1111011111 1001010111 1111010101 11101100101 11111001010 1111010101 10011111000 11010101010 11010001010 11011001010 11111111010 1011111001 01010010101 1101111101 10010000101 0101111111 01110101001 1111101101 0101000101 1111011101 1101000101 11010110101 10110101101
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 832
- Average number of words per stanza: 149
- Amount of lines: 93
- 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; and, in, or, of, for, thee are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words or, and, of are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines him is repeated).
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