This is an analysis of the poem To Edward Williams that begins with:
I.
The serpent is shut out from Paradise.... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXcdcdee Xfefefegg XXaXadaee Xheheheff afgXgfgii ajfjfjfbb Xggggggkk
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,9,9,9,9,9,9,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1 0100110101 0101110111 010111 01011101010 110101011 1001010 11110101 1101010101 1 0101110110 01001111101 010100 1101011001 11010010111 010001 10110001 0100010100 1 1101111100 1111111101 110111 1111111101 0101011100 111111 11000101 1101000001 1 1101011111 1111111100 111101 0100110111 0101110101 010111 00110011 1111011101 1 11110011111 0100101100111 111111 1001010111 0011011101 001111 01111111 1111001100 1 01101110101 1111110101 101111 0101010101 1101011101 111111 10100101 1111110101 1 1101010101 1111010111 111101 0101110101 1111010101 110111 01011111 1010111001
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 305
- Average number of words per stanza: 60
- Amount of lines: 63
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (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; that, i, meant, if are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, of, if are repeated.
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