This is an analysis of the poem To ------ that begins with:
Thanks to the friend whose happy lines coud cheer
In Derry's oaten soil frozen air...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbcXdddd cceXffaaddffggXddd hheee iiijj
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,18,5,5,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1001110111 010101101 1001011111 0111011101 0101010111 1010101010 1011110101 10001010001 1001010101 111101101 1111111011 1110010111 1001011101 110011100 1101010111 1101010111 1111010101 0111111101 1101101000 1001010001 011110101 011011011 11000100101 0101010101 1011011101 111010101 1101010101 1011011111 1110011101 110011001 10111111 01010010101 1011111101 1101110111 1101110101 110111111 1001110101 111111111
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 387
- Average number of words per stanza: 75
- Amount of lines: 38
- Average number of symbols per line: 40 (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; my, you are repeated.
The author used the same word your at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of To ------;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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