This is an analysis of the poem To J.R. that begins with:
Last Sunday night I read the saddening story
Of the unanswered love of fair Elaine,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXaX bcbc bdbd eded
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111111010010 0011010101 01100101010 01011000101 11011101010 1111111101 11111101010 1101011101 11110111110 1101011101 10110101010 1101000111 11010101010 1111010101 110111110010 1011010101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 176
- Average number of words per stanza: 31
- Amount of lines: 16
- 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; of is repeated.
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