This is an analysis of the poem On A Letter that begins with:
I.
SUNBEAMS can fling no purer brightness o'er the sea... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaaaa Xbaba caca
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,4,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic trimeter or irregular meter
- Metre: 1 1011110101001 1110111010001 110101110011 111111111101 1 11010101 010111 11010101 010101 11010001 011101 11010111 011101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 154
- Average number of words per stanza: 29
- Amount of lines: 15
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (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; no is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
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