This is an analysis of the poem On Receiving Hayley's Picture that begins with:
In language warm as could be breathed or penned
Thy picture speaks the original my friend,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaaabb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 0101110111 11010010011 1111110111 1101110111 0101110111 1101010101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 264
- Average number of words per stanza: 48
- Amount of lines: 6
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (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.
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