This is an analysis of the poem To His Peculiar Friend, Mr John Wicks that begins with:
Since shed or cottage I have none,
I sing the more, that thou hast one;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccddbXeeffdd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 16,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11110111 11011111 01111111 11010111 110101001 10110110 11111101 11010101 010011101 01010100 11111101 01111111 11010111 10110100 10110110 11110111
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 557
- Average number of words per stanza: 112
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word to is repeated.
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