This is an analysis of the poem To The Commissioners Of Northern Lights that begins with:
I SEND to you, commissioners,
A paper that may please ye, sirs... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXaXaX Xaabab cccbcb dddXXX eeeXeX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11010100 01011111 11110101 11100 11110111 0111 11111111 11110001 01010101 1111 11011101 1111 11010111 11000001 11010111 1101 11011101 1101 11111101 11110101 11010111 11011 1101010 1110 10011101 01110111 01111100 1111 11011101 1110
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 169
- Average number of words per stanza: 34
- Amount of lines: 30
- Average number of symbols per line: 27 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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