This is an analysis of the poem To Elihu Burritt that begins with:
DEAR SIR:-
Pray deem it not presumptious in me... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: X Xaba cdcd eaea fgfg gege hehe bibi eded ejej agag ekek lili
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 11 110110001 0101010111 11110000100 0110111101 1110110101 1111001101 1111110101 1101010101 1100010101 10010010111 1010111101 1011110001 1111110101 01011101010 1111010101 01110001010 1111011101 10010000101 1101010101 01011101001 1111101101 01010000101 1110001101 0100110101 1001011100 0111011111 1101001100 10011011101 1111110101 0101010101 1101011101 0001110100 1111011101 1000011101 11001111111 1101110101 1111011111 1101010101 1101110001 0011011111 1101001101 11001011101 1111000101 0011111101 11110000011 1101000111 1111010101 10011011101
- Amount of stanzas: 13
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 156
- Average number of words per stanza: 29
- Amount of lines: 49
- 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; to, your, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word their is repeated.
The author used the same words i, and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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