This is an analysis of the poem A New Year's Gift that begins with:
We are prevented; you whose Presence is
A Publick New-yeares gift, a Common bliss... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XabXXa bbcXddaaXXcc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,12,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1101011100 01011010101 0111111111 0101111110 1101010101 1101011101 11101011001 110101111 010101101 110100100100 11001110101 1101110101 11001010111 1001100101 1101111111 110110111 11101111001 11011101101
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 388
- Average number of words per stanza: 73
- Amount of lines: 19
- Average number of symbols per line: 40 (medium-length strings)
- 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; your is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word to is repeated.
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