This is an analysis of the poem L'Envoi that begins with:
Thou art the goal for which my spirit longs;
As dove on dove, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab cdcd ecec fafc agag eaea aeae hfhf cXca ijij gkgk lflf eded jkjkXbgbg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1101111101 1111 1111111111 0111 1101001101 1101 1111010101 0111 1101011101 0011 0101010101 1111 11010011111 1101 1011111101 0101 1101111111 1111 10100010111 0111 11100101001 0111 1001010011 1111 1111110111 0101 0011110001 1101 0011010001 1011 1101010001 1101 1101110101 1101 1101010101 0101 1101110001 01110 1111010101 01010 1101101111 00110 1101010111 110110 10111101010 1001 11110111010 10101 10111100010 1101 110110111010 0101 1101100111 11010 11110000111 01010 1111110101 1101 11110010101 1101
- Amount of stanzas: 15
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 130
- Average number of words per stanza: 23
- Amount of lines: 60
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
- 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; my, thee, in are repeated.
The author used the same words thou, when at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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