This is an analysis of the poem Unto This Last that begins with:
They brought my fair love out upon a bier—
Out from the dwelling that her smile made sweet,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbbacdddc eaaae
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,5,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: rondeau
- Metre: 1111110101 1001010111 1001101101 0001000101 1111111111 1101010101 1011000111 1001111101 0111001101 0111010101 11110101011 1101010011 1101111111 1111111011 1111101101
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 348
- Average number of words per stanza: 68
- Amount of lines: 15
- Average number of symbols per line: 46 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; out is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words out, and are repeated.
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