This is an analysis of the poem To My Readers that begins with:
NAY, blame me not; I might have spared
Your patience many a trivial verse,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab cdcX efef adad gfgf dhdh aiai jkjk dede aaaa alal mnmn
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 11111111 1101001001 111100101 11010101 11111101 11010111 0010100101 01110101 11111101 11111101 010101001 01010101 11011101 11000101 11011111 11110001 110001001 110101001 11110101 11010111 01010111 01010111 110100001 11010101 01111101 01111101 11110101 01010101 01010111 11010101 110100101 11011111 10010101 110101001 01111101 01010001 11001111 11010101 01010101 010110111 11011101 11011101 010010001 11110011 11110011 11011101 01010111 01011101
- Amount of stanzas: 12
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 141
- Average number of words per stanza: 26
- Amount of lines: 48
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; our is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words when, before, in, the, our are repeated.
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