This is an analysis of the poem Still I Love To Rhyme that begins with:
STILL I love to rhyme, and still more, rhyming, to wander
Far from the commoner way;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab cdcd XeXe afaf
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1110111110010 1001001 11111101111110 1001001 1110111111010 1010001 111010110010 1001001 1111101110010 1101001 1110101110100 1011001 1111101010010 100110001 11111111011010 1001101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 172
- Average number of words per stanza: 31
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (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; to, still, and are repeated.
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