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

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ONE happy year has fled, Sall, ... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcbcdcd X aeXeafgf X XagaabXb X gXXdgaaa
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 0,8,1,8,1,8,1,8,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1101111 110111 01110101 010111 1101011 1010101 111110001 101101 1 0101011 011101 11001100 111101 1111011 111011 1101011 011101 1 0101010 110111 11110011 010101 1011011 111101 11111111 110101 1 11000101 1111010 11010001 111101 11011101 111111 11111111 010101
  • Amount of stanzas: 8
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 128
  • Average number of words per stanza: 25
  • Amount of lines: 36
  • Average number of symbols per line: 28 (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; in is repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words , the, and are repeated.

    The author used the same word at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines is repeated).

    The poet repeated the same word at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

    The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase connects the lines.

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