This is an analysis of the poem To Haydon With A Sonnet Written On Seeing The Elgin Marbles that begins with:

Haydon! forgive me that I cannot speak
Definitively of these mighty things; ... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abbaaXbacdcXcd
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Metre: 1001111101 0100001101 0111111101 1111111101 1111110101 01011000100 100010100001 0101011101 1111110101 11001111001 1111111101 01010011001 1110011001 011001110100
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 615
  • Average number of words per stanza: 111
  • Amount of lines: 14
  • Average number of symbols per line: 43 (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; i, that are repeated.

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