This is an analysis of the poem Lines (With A Volume Of The Author's Poems Sent To M.R.C.) that begins with:

Go, Verse, nor let the grass of tarrying grow
Beneath thy feet iambic. Southward go... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabbccdXaaeeddffggeXXXXXhh
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 26,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: heroic couplets
  • Metre: 1111010101 011110101 10100011101 1101000101 0101110101 1111000101 1100010101 1001110100 1011111001 1101110111 1100111101 1111011101 1111111111 0111010111 1101111101 11011100101 0111111101 1101000111 1111010100 1111010100 1011010101 0101010100 11010101100 001110001 01010010101 1101011001
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1106
  • Average number of words per stanza: 194
  • Amount of lines: 26
  • 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; of is repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word or is repeated.

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