This is an analysis of the poem To A Gentleman On His Voyage To Great-Britain For The Recovery Of His Health that begins with:
WHILE others chant of gay Elysian scenes,
Of balmy zephyrs, and of flow'ry plains,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbaaaaXXccaaddeeffXXccbbggccaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 32,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1101011001 0101010101 1111010101 1101010101 11110110001 11010101001 1111011001 1111010001 11100110101 1111010101 1101110101 1101011001 1101011001 1111010101 1101010101 11010101001 1101010101 0111000101 0111010101 1101110101 0111011101 11010001010 0101011101 1101010101 1101010001 0111010101 1111111101 10110100101 1101010101 0101010101 1111010101 1111110001
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1403
- Average number of words per stanza: 248
- Amount of lines: 32
- 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, equal are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word i is repeated.
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