This is an analysis of the poem A Letter To A Live Poet that begins with:
Sir, since the last Elizabethan died,
Or, rather, that more Paradisal muse,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcdeXfcabgXbXfXfddbbhh XaadhXgbfXXcedhbfcfXafbbbbXd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 23,28,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 1101100101 1101110001 101110011100 1101011111 1101110101 110101110 00100100100001 1001110101 1011000111 010011110101 1111010111 010010010100 0101010011 0111001000 101011011 10010001010000 100000100101 0111000101 1101010001 11010100101 10010010101 1101000100 1101111111 1001111101 1011110001 1111000101 10010000101 0001001101 101110101 11011101111 01010101010 1001010001 1001000101 01001010100 1001001101 010100110 1101110001 0111011101 1101010 101 110111001 11110111110 1111110 0101010001 1101010001 010110011 010100011101 11011100010 101000001 1101010111 0100010001
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1216
- Average number of words per stanza: 184
- Amount of lines: 51
- Average number of symbols per line: 47 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- 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; of, all, in are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, and are repeated.
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