This is an analysis of the poem To A Young Friend, On His Arriving At Cambridge Wet, When No Rain Had Fallen There that begins with:
If Gideon's fleece, which drenched with dew he found,
White moisture none refreshed the herbs around,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaaabbbb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 0101110111 1101010101 1101010101 01001010101 0101010011 1101110101 10111010111 1111011111
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 369
- Average number of words per stanza: 64
- Amount of lines: 8
- 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; on is repeated.
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