This is an analysis of the poem To A Star that begins with:
Sweet star, which gleaming o'er the darksome scene
Through fleecy clouds of silvery radiance fliest,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXabcXXbcbcaXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 15,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: rondeau
- Metre: 11110100101 110101001001 10011101001 11011001001 10010010111 10010111010 1111010101 1101110101 11010010101 0110011100 10010101111 10010100001 01110011111 01111100101 011000
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 666
- Average number of words per stanza: 115
- Amount of lines: 15
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (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 is repeated.
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