This is an analysis of the poem To -- that begins with:

When that eye of light shall in darkness fall,
And thy bosom be shrouded in death's cold pall, ... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabb ccbb ddXd
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1110110101 11100100111 1010111111 11110100101 111101111 1010111101 111101101 1001101111 1111111101 00111111001 1110111110010 111001001011
  • Amount of stanzas: 3
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 185
  • Average number of words per stanza: 36
  • Amount of lines: 12
  • Average number of symbols per line: 46 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 9
  • 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.

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  • summary of To --;
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  • history of its creation;
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