This is an analysis of the poem To The Reverend George Coleridge, Of Ottery St. Mary, Devon that begins with:
A blessed lot hath he, who having past
His youth and early manhood in the stir... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXbaacXXdadece adaafgcXchhXdhicjdXcXhchccfaidbjdcaXjaaXgeacfjc cXXXdbcgcdhdbXa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,47,15,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 011111101 0111011001 1110010111 0111110101 0011010101 11010100101 011111111 1111001100 100111111001 1111010001 1100111101 1111010101 1110110011 1011110111 01101010101 010010111001 1001111101 1101011111 0101011111 1011010011 1101101101 1101010101 0011010101 1001111111 10010101111 11110010100 1101010011 10101110101 11110001010 1111010100 1111111101 1001010111 1101010011 1101011101 01010101100 01011101001 1011101000 1010100001 1011010 111 1101111111 1101010101 1111111101 11010111001 1111111111 11110000101 1101011100 01111110111 1101000101 11011111110 11010101011 1101110101 0101111101 00110100111 1001011101 1111110101 1011010101 11011010111 11011011001 1101100101 11110101011 1110101110 1001011111 0111011111 1101011110 0111010101 10110000101 11110111001 100101 11001 111101001001 0111011101 0101011101 01010101001 1111111101 01011111010
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1095
- Average number of words per stanza: 197
- Amount of lines: 76
- 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.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; his, and, of, my are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words of, or are repeated.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase false connects the lines.
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