This is an analysis of the poem Farewell To Verse that begins with:

In youth when oft my muse was dumb,
My fancy nighly dead,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: ababcXcX cdcdXefe fbfXXgXg
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 01111111 110101 01110101 110111 11110111 0011000 1101000111 11010 01110101 1011 11110101 1111 11110101 11110 11100101 01110 00111101 11010 01011101 0101000 11010101 11110 110101010 11110
  • Amount of stanzas: 3
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 251
  • Average number of words per stanza: 43
  • Amount of lines: 24
  • Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 5
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; my, i are repeated.

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