This is an analysis of the poem To Lucasta, Going Beyond The Seas that begins with:
If to be absent were to be
Away from thee;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbcc ddXXXe ffeegg ggeehh
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 00010000 0101 111111 111001 11100111 10010111001 11111111 0111 110101 010111 11010111 1101110111 11110111 1111 110101 111101 01010111 0101111101 11110101 1101 110111 011111 11110101 01011010101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 175
- Average number of words per stanza: 34
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 28 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
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.
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