This is an analysis of the poem To Meet, Or Otherwise that begins with:
Whether to sally and see thee, girl of my dreams,
Or whether to stay... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abababbcdcXcddddddXXXXebebee
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 28,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 100101111011 11001 11111101001 0101 1110110101 1111 1111111001001 1101110111 0111 0101010101 100 1111101111 1111 1111001111111 1101010101 0010 1111010101 1001 1101001100 1110 1011010100100 1001110100 0101 1101010011 0111 11100110100 1101 010111011101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 937
- Average number of words per stanza: 175
- Amount of lines: 28
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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- summary of To Meet, Or Otherwise;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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