This is an analysis of the poem To A Friend Who Had Declared His Intention Of Writing No More Poetry that begins with:
Dear Charles! whilst yet thou wert a babe, I ween
That Genius plunged thee in that wizard fount... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXabcddXefdXXebXeaXeeXcgdfhbhgeXgdhefX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 38,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 11011110111 1101101101 1101100011 1101010011 1101111101 0111110100 11110001001 111100010 1111100101 11110101001 1011010001 1100110100 1101110001 011000101111 1111000111 1111010001 1111110111 1111101101 10010101001 1111010101 10010000101 11000111000 1010011101 1110010101 01110 11101 1011110101 1101110101 111000111 1101010101 110100011001 1101011101 1001111001 10111101010 0111011101 1011011101 1011000101 001001010100
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1608
- Average number of words per stanza: 279
- Amount of lines: 38
- 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; that, and, thy are repeated.
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