This is an analysis of the poem Sylvander To Clarinda that begins with:
WHEN dear Clarinda, 1 matchless fair,
First struck Sylvander's raptur'd view,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab cXcb dbdb ebeb fbfb fbXX cbgX hbhb gbgb fbfX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110101101 111001001 11110001 01111101 101001001 01010111 11010101 11010101 11010111 01010101 11010101 01111101 01010101 11110101 110101001 11110111 11110101 11010101 01100101 11010111 01010101 11011101 11010110 1011101110 01010101 11010101 11110101 1010101010 11111101 11111101 01010101 11111111 11011101 11101111 01011101 010111011 11010101 10111101 11111101 11110101000
- Amount of stanzas: 10
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 145
- Average number of words per stanza: 26
- Amount of lines: 49
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; he, to are repeated.
The author used the same word the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word do at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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