This is an analysis of the poem Admonition that begins with:
WELL may'st thou halt-and gaze with brightening eye!
The lovely Cottage in the guardian nook... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbaabbXcddcaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 11111101001 01010001001 1111000111 0111011011 11010011001 1101100111 0101110101 010101100 1101100001 10111111101 01010110001 0100011101 1111101001 1101011101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 630
- Average number of words per stanza: 114
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (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; its, own are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.
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