This is an analysis of the poem At First. To Charlotte Cushman. that begins with:

My crippled sense fares bow'd along
His uncompanioned way,... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abab cdcd efef gggg hchc fifi jbjb kbkb clcl
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: ballad stanza
  • Metre: 11011101 0100001 11111101 111111111 101011011 1110101 101011111 01010111 1011110101 111101 1010011111 1110100101 111111001 101000101 1010111101 101011101 110110001 0010111 1101000101 0110101101 110100101 1101001 1100111001 1011101001 11111100 1101101 10110101100 11010101 1111001001 1100101 110011001 110100111 11010101 0101001 110010001 11011111
  • Amount of stanzas: 9
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 149
  • Average number of words per stanza: 29
  • Amount of lines: 36
  • Average number of symbols per line: 36 (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; by, and, of, mere are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, no, mere are repeated.

    The author used the same word and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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