This is an analysis of the poem L'Envoi To "Life's Handicap" that begins with:
My new-cut ashlar takes the light
Where crimson-blank the windows flare;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab acac dXde dcdc fgfg ehehXcdcd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11110101 11010101 11110101 110101111 01000111 11010101 11110111 11110101 11010101 11100010 01100101 01110100 11110101 11000101 100110011 11010101 011101010 01010111 110111010 11011101 11011001 01110011 00011111 11110111 11110011 11001111 11011101 11111111
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 144
- Average number of words per stanza: 27
- Amount of lines: 28
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (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; my, i, thee, to, thy are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, thou are repeated.
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