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

Most tuneful singer, lover tenderest,
Most sad, most piteous, and most musical,... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: Xaabbaab cXdcdX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,6,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: limerick
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Metre: 1101010100 1111011100 1001110111 0101010101 1101111101 1100000101 0111010100 0101001101 1111010111 11011100101 1101001101 1101010001 1111111101 0101010100
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 291
  • Average number of words per stanza: 53
  • Amount of lines: 14
  • Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
  • 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; most is repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word most is repeated.

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