This is an analysis of the poem To Harriet that begins with:
Thy look of love has power to calm
The stormiest passion of my soul;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcc dedeff gfgfbX hahaiiXgegedd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,13,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110111001 010010011 11011101 011101 11011101 11010111 100011101 00111011 11011111 011101 11110111 01110011 01110111 11010111 110100101 010101 11011001 01010101 11010001 01110111 110100111 1011001 01011101 010000101 11111101 10010101 11010111 110111 11010101 11001111
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 198
- Average number of words per stanza: 38
- Amount of lines: 30
- 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; of, thy, his, 'tis are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word 'tis is repeated.
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- summary of To Harriet;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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