Poem Analysis of Elegy V. He Compares The Turbulence Of Love With The Tranquillity Of Friendship by William Shenstone for close reading

This is an analysis of the poem Elegy V. He Compares The Turbulence Of Love With The Tranquillity Of Friendship that begins with:

From Love, from angry Love's inclement reign
I pass awhile to Friendship's equal skies;... full text

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Rhyme scheme: abab cdcd eXeX cfcf bfbf adad eXeX
Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
Closest metre: iambic pentameter
Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
Сlosest stanza type: tercets
Guessed form: blank verse
Metre: 0101010101 1101010101 11001101101 1101000101 1101011011 1110110001 1111010101 1111011111 1101010101 1111010101 11110100101 10010101001 11010101001 1000100101 1110010101 1011010101 11010110001 1100110101 11011110001 1101100101 11010001001 11001010101 1111110101 1111010001 1111011101 10101010101 1101011001 11010010101
Amount of stanzas: 7
Average number of symbols per stanza: 173
Average number of words per stanza: 29
Amount of lines: 28
Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; my, how, can, oh are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word how is repeated.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase love connects the lines.

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