This is an analysis of the poem To His Sister that begins with:
Loving Sister: every line
Of your last letter was so fine... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaXXbbccddaaXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic tetrameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 10101001 01110111 00110101 010010011 01010101 1111001 11111101 11011101 11110100 10011100 11111101 0101010 11100111 11110101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 458
- Average number of words per stanza: 85
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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