This is an analysis of the poem To Delia that begins with:
Me to whatever state the gods assign,
Believe, my love, whatever state be mine,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccddeeaaffaaggaahhiijjaaeekkllddaaeeiiddeelll
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 49,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 1011010101 0111110101 1111110101 111101011 00111010101 1111000101 1101110110 1111000101 11111001101 1111110101 11010101001 1100110111 11010110101 0111010111 1101010101 0100010001 11011101001 11110111001 01010101010 11000101010 0111010101 1111110101 1101000111 11010100001 1111010101 0101100001 0100111011 011110101 110101011 1101001101 1111110011 1101010101 1011011101 1010110001 1101011101 010101010101 11110101001 1101011101 1101111001 10110100101 01111101001 1011010101 111101101001 01010011100101 1111011101 01010001001 11011010101 11110001001 111100101001
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 2111
- Average number of words per stanza: 375
- Amount of lines: 49
- 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; my is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words ne'er, the, pity are repeated.
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- summary of To Delia;
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