This is an analysis of the poem To William Wordsworth that begins with:

Friend of the Wise ! and Teacher of the Good !
Into my heart have I received that Lay... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: abbXcdaadef bfghidaaageffffb hjkeajXleaXjmnoajhahX ampeheieaiogbhjlafXecmjjadfmq bfXadhk lpakfbeffk qiakajfgnbj agaXgfheqam
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 11,16,21,29,7,10,11,11,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 1001110000 0011110111 1101010101 0111111110 0001010101 00101011101 11010010101 100110101 1101010101 0101110001 111111 1111 010100101001 0111010111 01010000101 1101010111 111101001010 1011011101 11010111101 0101010101 01011101001 101000101 01000010111 1011111101 1101011101 0101110101 0110010011 0111000101 10011101011 1101011100 111010101 010010010111 0100111101 1111111100 0101000101 0101010100 10010010101 111101110 0111010111 1101011111 001110011011 0110010101 1101010001 0100010111 0101010101 1011110101 01010111001 0111010 111 1111110101 01011110010 01001010101 11111011001 11001101011 1100110100 1101010100 1101011101 10011101001 0101101111 110001101 01010101001 11110011001 1111000101 0100110101 11011010101 1101010101 11010100101 1000111001 1111110101 1111110101 1011111101 11010110101 1111110111 1111011111 10011101110 10111110111 0011010111 1111111001 1101000101 1001011000 0101110101 1001001111 1001100101 10011010 111 110101000110 0101001101 11011010111 1111011111 0101111101 11011101001 0101011101 010010101010 010101 11001 1101101101 0101011111 11010110111 01010010011 11110111001 10101010101 0101010111 1100011101 0001010101 1011110001 1111110011 10101100011 111011001 1111111110 1101111111 1101001010 1101110001 1111010011 11011010101 0111010101 1111111101
  • Amount of stanzas: 8
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 606
  • Average number of words per stanza: 109
  • Amount of lines: 116
  • Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
  • 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; of, and, had, all, i are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words of, amid, and are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines lay, mind, vain are repeated).

    The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase thought connects the lines.

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