This is an analysis of the poem Variant Form Of The Preceding Poem that begins with:
COME to me, all ye that labour; I will give your spirits rest;
Here apart in starry quiet I will give you rest.... full text
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- Rhyme scheme: aaXabbb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101111111011101 1010101010111 1011101011001110 011010101010101 1110111101110111 11101111010101001 10101010010100101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 420
- Average number of words per stanza: 82
- Amount of lines: 7
- Average number of symbols per line: 59 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 12
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word but is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines rest is repeated).
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