This is an analysis of the poem Drink To Her that begins with:

Drink to her who long
Hath waked the poet's sigh, ... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: aBABcdcdaBAB XcXXefefaBAB ghghijijaBAB
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,12,12,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 10011 1100101 011101 111101 110111 110101 110101 011101 110011 1100101 011101 111101 110101 111111 11010110 1101110 010111 011111 110101 110111 110011 1100101 011101 111101 011101 111011 010101 11011 110101 110101 010101 110101 110011 1100101 011101 111101
  • Amount of stanzas: 3
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 351
  • Average number of words per stanza: 63
  • Amount of lines: 36
  • Average number of symbols per line: 28 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 5
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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