This is an analysis of the poem To Mary that begins with:
I seem, in the midst of the crowd,
The lightest of all;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcdcd eaeaeded
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11001001 01001 11011011 01011 11101101 11101 111111111 111111 01111011 01101 01011001 11111 11111111 01111 101101011 101101
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 231
- Average number of words per stanza: 49
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 28 (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; my, and, for, i are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.
The poet repeated the same word thee at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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