This is an analysis of the poem To My Dear Friend Mr. E[ldred] R[evett]. On His Poems Moral that begins with:
Cleft as the top of the inspired hill,
Struggles the soul of my divided quill,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabXccdd ddeXddaa eecXfXdXgg cchhccii ccggaabXjjggjjfgii kkee ddeeiiddXXjjggbbccgfgX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,10,8,18,4,22,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1101000101 1001010101 1011010101 110101010010 01110110101 1111011001 1111010101 110101001111 1101100101 0011110001 0111011001 101101101 11010011111 1110011101 111011011101 0011011100 1101011011 11010100001 1101010101 110111101 11111010101 1111010101 11010011111 00111101 1101001101 1110010101 1111011011 1101011001 1100111111 0101010101 1101011101 1101110111 1011001111 1111110101 11001000111 11011000101 0100101001 1001101010 1110000111 1111111100 1101010111 0111000010 1011110111 1011110101 1101111111 1111011101 1101001101 1001010101 1110010101 11010111 1101110111 1101110101 1001010101 1111111101 1111100001 1000010111 1111010111 1101011111 11010111101 1110110101 1111110111 11111100001 1110011111 110111011 10010011001 1111011101 101101101111 1111001101 1111010101 10011011101 110101100111 1101010101 010101101 11101010111 1111001101 1111011101 1111110011 11011100
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 487
- Average number of words per stanza: 88
- Amount of lines: 78
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (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; and, my, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
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