This is an analysis of the poem To A Robin In November that begins with:
Sweet, sweet and the soft listening heaven reels
In one blue ecstasy above thy song ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcaddb cad aaeXfXaeXf ghfcgfhgXcbaiia
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,3,10,15,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 11101100101 0111000111 00110101001 0011001101 1101011111 101101011001 1001011111 11101101 1001011101 0100110111 1001110101 10001011101 0101010111 1001010101 1011001101 10010111011 0100111001 0101101111001 11010001010 1101011101 1111010101 1001010111 1001100101 1001010111 1101011101 1101001101 111111111 1001110111 1111001110 001001000101 1001110111 10010101101 101101111011 11011110101 1101010101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 402
- Average number of words per stanza: 73
- Amount of lines: 35
- Average number of symbols per line: 45 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- 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; in, and, of, dead are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words in, of, dead are repeated.
The author used the same word sweet at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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