This is an analysis of the poem Lines In Reply To The Beautiful Poet Who Welcomed News Of Mcgonagall's Departure From Dundee that begins with:
Dear Johnny, I return my thanks to you;
But more than thanks is your due... full text
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- Rhyme scheme: aabb cdee ddff ggdd hhhh iidc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1101011101 1111011 11000100100011 1001010001 010111011101 100101011101000101 111100111001 011001111001 111011111001 11101110010101 111111111 10010011 11111101001001 11101101 101101101 1101101011 10010111001 11001010100101 011010111 1101011101 111111110101 1110110101 1101011010001 1111010101011
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 178
- Average number of words per stanza: 35
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; as, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, he are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines hair is repeated).
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