This is an analysis of the poem To Lucasta, Like The Sentinel Stars that begins with:
I.
Like to the sent'nel stars, I watch all night; ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: a bbbbb X ccaaa X ddaXa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,5,1,5,1,5,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1 1001011111 11011011 11001 010111 1011011101 1 1111011101 11010111 10011 111111 1101010011 1 1111011101 010010111 1110 11100 1011011111
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 84
- Average number of words per stanza: 17
- Amount of lines: 18
- Average number of symbols per line: 27 (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; my is repeated.
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