This is an analysis of the poem To The Earth that begins with:

Oh ! hadst thou kindly arms that could enfold me
While yet I live, sweet Earth, console and hold me... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabccb ddecce fffggf cchXXh
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11110111011 11111110111 10110111010 11110111010 01110111110 11110111110 11110001010 10110101010 11011011110 11110001010 11110111110 10010111010 111100101110 01010100010 01011011010 11111101010 11011111010 11011101110 11110111010 111100110110 01010101010 01111101110 11011101010 110111011110
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 278
  • Average number of words per stanza: 49
  • Amount of lines: 24
  • Average number of symbols per line: 45 (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; thou is repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines me is repeated).

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