This is an analysis of the poem To E. H. K. that begins with:
ON THE RECEIPT OF A FAMILIAR POEM
To me, like hauntings of a vagrant breath...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: X abbaXbbacdecde
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: rondeau
- Metre: 10010001010 0111000101 0111011111 00100100101 1100110101 11011110100 1101001111 1111110111 0101010101 1101100011 1101011111 01111110001 1101000101 11110010101 1111010101
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 321
- Average number of words per stanza: 61
- Amount of lines: 15
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word makes is repeated.
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