This is an analysis of the poem To An English Friend that begins with:
THE seed that wasteful autumn cast
To waver on its stormy blast,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaXabbcc ddeefffXgg ddhhhhXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,10,8,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01110101 01010101 110010101 01011101 11010101 010101001 11000101 11010011 11010101 011010101 110101110 0100101110 010100111 01010101 11010101 01010100 11010101 10010101 1100111001 11010101 11011101 01110101 110100001 01100101 011110011 01010101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 313
- Average number of words per stanza: 54
- Amount of lines: 26
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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- summary of To An English Friend;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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