This is an analysis of the poem Composed At Clevedon, Somersetshire that begins with:
My pensive Sara, thy soft cheek reclined
Thus on mine arm, most soothing sweet it is... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXcdedfgefeheibbgbadabgjXkakXXbkbeiagbcXgeaeXahjXXBBfkga X
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 57,1,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1101011101 1111110100 01011111100 0110101011010 1101010011 1101110101 1101110101 01001011100 1100110001 1011110111 0101000101 1101011101 11100101001 111010101 11111100010 0111100111 1001011101 101011001 1001010111 1011010001 1111011111 1011010101 11001101010 1011110101 11111011001 1111110111 0101111111 1111111101 0101110101 1101010100 110010111000 1101010100 1011001101 11110010101 1111010011 11010101010 01010110001 11000111001 10111101001 1101011101 11110010110 1101010111 11100011101 1101110011 1100010001 11111100100 11000100001 1011011111 111000110001 1101011101 100001101 1111011101 1111011101 100101011 0101110001 10011111001 11011011001 1011
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1227
- Average number of words per stanza: 213
- Amount of lines: 58
- Average number of symbols per line: 41 (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; and, my are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word i is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines feels is repeated).
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