This is an analysis of the poem To A Distant Friend that begins with:
Why art thou silent! Is thy love a plant
Of such weak fibre that the treacherous air... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abba abXb cdcede
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,6,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 1111001101 01110101001 0101011111 0111011101 1111110100 1011000101 01110010100 1111110011 1101111101 0101010111 0111001101 1001011101 1011010101 11110011111
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 208
- Average number of words per stanza: 38
- 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.
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