This is an analysis of the poem To A Poet, Charles Bridges that begins with:
THOU singest, thou, me seems,
Coming from high Parnassus; where thy head ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababacc dadXXee dbdbdff gagaghh iaiaicc jgagXjj bkbkbhh ciXicdd gkgkgii fdXdfbb bbbbbff lalalkkXagagagg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,15,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 110111 1001110111 010101 011101110 010011 1011010111 110101 110111 1111011101 111111 1101011110 010111 1011010101 110101 1000111 0100010111 110111 0111010101 11101 0111000101 111101 110101 01001011101 111101 0101010101 0111011 01010101111 001101 111111 0111011001 010111 1101000101 1100101 11010100101 110110 111100 1101110101 111100 1011010101 111100 1111001111 010101 111001 1101011101 001101 11001111101 110111 1101011101 110001 110101 0101111111 01100 1111111101 100101 1110010100 101100 111111 1101111101 110101 0101010111 010111 11001110111 011101 111101 0101011101 010100 0101000101 111100 0100011101 100101 111101 0111110011 010101 1101110101 010101 1101010101 0101001 101111 10110101010 111101 0111001010 110101 1111011101 010101 101111 0111011101 101101 1101110111 010101 0100111101 110101
- Amount of stanzas: 13
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 241
- Average number of words per stanza: 42
- Amount of lines: 91
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (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; thou, what, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words their, the are repeated.
The author used the same words thou, they at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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