This is an analysis of the poem To The Rev. William Cawthorne Unwin that begins with:
Unwin, I should but ill repay
The kindness of a friend,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcc adadee bfbfgg adadhh ididbb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10111101 010001 11011101 110101 11010001 11010101 11011101 110101 10110001 110001 11110101 11010101 01010001 010111 011100001 011001 010111111 10011101 11110111 111101 11000101 101101 11010001 11010001 01010101 100101 01010101 110111 11011101 11010001
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 185
- Average number of words per stanza: 37
- Amount of lines: 30
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; as, in, i are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, the are repeated.
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