This is an analysis of the poem To Amelia, My Last Infant Daughter that begins with:
On the fifth of chill November
Came my Amie unto me,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abac cdcd bebe afaf ghgh
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10101010 1110101 10111010 01100100 10111010 0011101 11111010 1110101 11101011 1110111 10110011 1111101 11011010 1110111 11101110 1010111 11101110 0110101 11110010 1110111
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 122
- Average number of words per stanza: 24
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; we is repeated.
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