This is an analysis of the poem The Task: Book Vi. -- The Winter Walk At Noon that begins with:

There is in souls a sympathy with sounds;
And as the mind is pitch’d the ear is pleased... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcdaadefgabXahhhaaigijfjhcbbkhclhgjbbjXjmkfibdajibfahbd bgajnkokflcababijfejjXjhhkjdjbhgagghahppdahXqfajdjhfhdaqjigha qdgahhbghghkahggbmapXbhhbagbjbepdbfqkmcjjmbfghjqakjeqXfhmdaegbgmghhbahaaedhhqjaj airhcjkbdagdoajfegnrXhabajlXjaahhbagiabcaalgaaaaialbogb
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 56,61,80,64,33,26,27,111,24,77,41,31,97,18,12,59,37,51,119,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: limerick
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
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  • Amount of stanzas: 19
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 2294
  • Average number of words per stanza: 418
  • Amount of lines: 1024
  • Average number of symbols per line: 42 (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; with, we, and, of, to, now, all, whose, no, their, nor, his, in, its, so, he, for, d, s, tree, mulberry, that, her, thy, they, she, him are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, from, may, and, of, nor, to, as, that, a, thy, he, his, in, whose are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines d, there are repeated).

    The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The words/phrases all, is, she connect the lines.

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