This is an analysis of the poem To A Friend, In Answer To A Melancholy Letter that begins with:
Away, those cloudy looks, that lab'ring sigh,
The peevish offspring of a sickly hour!... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abba cddc ceec fggf hffhXdffd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 0111011101 01011001010 11010101010 10110010101 1101100101 0111010101 0101010101 01010101011 11101010101 110010101001 11001011101 01000100101 11011100101 01111101101 0101001101 0111010101 1111000101 0101000101 1101010001 1001001101 1101010101 10101010101 1101111101 1011010001
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 174
- Average number of words per stanza: 31
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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