This is an analysis of the poem On Reading A Dictacted Letter that begins with:
Dear Friend, methinks when thus thy plenary soul
Speaks from yon pale default that lies so low,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbaabbaccdeed
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 11101111001 1011011111 0111011111 1110000001 1111010101 0110100101 0101011101 0101101011 1001010111 0101000011 1110010101 1101010101 1001110111 110110010001
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 604
- Average number of words per stanza: 109
- Amount of lines: 14
- 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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