This is an analysis of the poem To James Freeman Clarke that begins with:

I BRING the simplest pledge of love,
Friend of my earlier days;... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: abab cbcb cbcb cdcd eded fgfg hdhd hdhd fcfc didiXibib
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 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: 11010101 1011001 10010101 011101 11110101 111111 11110111 011111 11010101 110101 11011101 110111 110111001 110111 01101101 010101 010101001 1101001 10111101 010001 01111111 111111 101011101 110101 01001101 011111 11010101 110011 11010101 111111 11010101 111111 01010111 110111 11111111 111101 01110101 111101 01010101 010101 11001111 0111001 01010101 111111
  • Amount of stanzas: 11
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 130
  • Average number of words per stanza: 24
  • Amount of lines: 44
  • 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; and, we are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words what, the, his are repeated.

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