This is an analysis of the poem To —— that begins with:
When as I think on all the love I give
To one who still must marble be to me,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababbcbcdcdcbbcceecc ffgghh cchhii
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 20,6,6,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111110111 0111110001 1101111101 1101110101 1101111111 11010100101 1111110101 1111110101 0111110101 0111001101 1111010001 1111111101 1111110100 1011110101 1011101 10101001 1011111 10110101 10101111 0011101 1010101 0010001 1010101 1010101 10101001 1010101 10100101 1010001 00111110 10111010 10111010 11101110
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 382
- Average number of words per stanza: 74
- Amount of lines: 32
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (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; i, to, like, when are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word like is repeated.
The author used the same word but at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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