This is an analysis of the poem To A Friend Concerning Several Ladies that begins with:

You know there is not much
that I desire, a few chrysanthemums ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XabXacd aaefggfhXdihhffdchf aXjiXXekgfgbggdkaagkge ajgeaX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,19,22,6,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 111011 11010010100 11010110 11110 10011001 10101101 010010 111 011111 010 1100111 1101 11110110 11111 01001010 111 101111 111110 111110110 111011 111 010001011 110111110 11 01000111 1111110 111110 100010110 0101101001 110110 1011010 0111111 011001010 0011110 100110 1001011 01110101 101110010 11011001 11111 00110 111 111011 111111 1111101 10111001 110101011 011010 10010 0101 10101011 1101010 0101101 111111010
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 376
  • Average number of words per stanza: 74
  • Amount of lines: 54
  • Average number of symbols per line: 27 (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; and, come, i are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.

    The author used the same word and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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