This is an analysis of the poem To The Same that begins with:
I WOULD I had thy courage, dear, to face
This bankruptcy of love, and greet despair ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababbabaacdacd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 1111110101 0100011101 0101110101 1111010111 1111111111 1101011111 1101011111 0101010101 1111110111 1101010111 1110001101 1101111111 11110010001 1100111101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 637
- Average number of words per stanza: 114
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 45 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- 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; and, i are repeated.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase peace connects the lines.
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