This is an analysis of the poem To Isaac Walton that begins with:
Walton! dear Angler! when, a school-freed boy,
Of varnished rod and silken tackle proud,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcddbXbXedfdbdgd dhiigdaiicfidhXXjbXXeje
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 17,23,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1011010111 0101110101 1101111111 1111010101 11111111001 1111010111 1001101110110 11111100101 1101010111 1011110101 1101010101 11110010101 11010101111 0101011101 0111010101 11100001001 10010011100 1101010101 11111101010 1101111101 100011111001 1101000101 1010011110 11010111111 1111111101 111101110010 11011011111 10111010111 0101110101 1100110111 11111101010 110111111 11000010100 11001111001 01000111001 1111010101 1101110101 11010100001 10010001001 1111010101
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 918
- Average number of words per stanza: 159
- Amount of lines: 40
- Average number of symbols per line: 45 (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, thy are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
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- summary of To Isaac Walton;
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