This is an analysis of the poem To Ianthe that begins with:
I love thee, Baby! for thine own sweet sake;
Those azure eyes, that faintly dimpled cheek,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaaabcbcXdXdXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 1111011111 1101110101 1101110001 1001010111 111101101010 11011001001 11110001010 1111011101 1111010000 11110101010 1011111101 11111111010 1011110101 01001101000
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 621
- Average number of words per stanza: 110
- Amount of lines: 14
- 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; thy is repeated.
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