This is an analysis of the poem To A Friend, With An Unfinished Poem that begins with:
Thus far my scanty brain hath built the rhyme
Elaborate and swelling; yet the heart... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XabXaXbcXcdeebbbcabXXcbbcbdcXXaX X
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 32,1,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1111011101 0101110101 11001101010 1111110101 10001101101 01001010111 0101011101 1101011101 01001110011 1011010101 11001010001 11010111010 11110111010 00111111010 1011000101 1001110100 11001010101 11110111111 01111100110 11111101001 1110011011 110100011 1101010011 01011111010 1101010101 1101010101 0101011101 1001010001 1111110101 01110101100 1100110101 1111000101 11
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 705
- Average number of words per stanza: 124
- Amount of lines: 33
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (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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