To Louise, With A Branch Of Mistletoe by Richard Crawley: poem analysis

This is an analysis of the poem To Louise, With A Branch Of Mistletoe that begins with:

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Mortals, whosoe'er ye be,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: X aabb X ccdd X eebb X dddX X bbff X gghh X ddXc
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1 1010010 1010101 10101010 1010010 1 10001010 10111110 10101010 11111110 1 1001111 1110101 10111010 10111010 1 01101110 10111010 10100010 11101010 1 10001110 011101110 10101010 11100110 1 1000101 11101001 10001110 11111010 1 111110010 10111010 11101010 10101110
  • Amount of stanzas: 14
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 66
  • Average number of words per stanza: 12
  • Amount of lines: 41
  • Average number of symbols per line: 22 (very short strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 4

  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and is repeated.

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

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