This is an analysis of the poem To Thomas Butts that begins with:
TO my friend Butts I write
My first vision of light, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccddeeffbbaaeeXXgghhddiihheeccaaccjjddkkeebbaaggddhhaaXddDllddmmdDddggmmhh
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 78,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 011111 111001 1010110 011010 01001 01011 101101 11001 001001 01011 0010010 010010 010010 1010010 01001 01001 01111 10101 111001 10010 11101 101111 111001 01101 101101 1001101 11111 11011 11111 101111 110011 11101 11001 01011 11101 01111 01111 10011 11111 1110111 111011 111001 011111 101101 11111 101011 010010 010010 101001 1001101 10111 101001 11001 001011 11101 1110111 110001 001011 110111 111011 100011 111101 110001 101001 101001 01011 001011 011111 111011 111101 101101 110101 111011 01111 111111 101001 101001 10101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 2133
- Average number of words per stanza: 369
- Amount of lines: 78
- Average number of symbols per line: 26 (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.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; d, each, and, my are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words each, and, on are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines d is repeated).
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