This is an analysis of the poem To The Same (John Dyer) that begins with:

ENOUGH of climbing toil!--Ambition treads
Here, as 'mid busier scenes, ground steep and rough,... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abXXaXcdefabgahXaeiiXXcXjfaXXhgjfiXccXikXefgeXdfgdk
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 51,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 0101010101 11110011111 110010010111 1111010100 101010000101 1101100101 0101010101 1010010001 01011111001 0101001101 1101010101 1101110101 1001110001 1111010001 11001010001 1100001110 100101010001 1011010101 01001111101 1111010101 0111111110 0101010001 1101010100 11010111100 1101011101 1101100101 10001111001 11011001001 0011010101 11100010111 1101011101 1101111111 01110100111 1000110101 1010110111 0101010101 10010101001 1100110111 10101011111 0101000100 1101100110 1111110001 0101010111 0111010111 1111110101 111111010010 10101000101 0101011111 001101010011 1110010101 1001010100
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 2183
  • Average number of words per stanza: 374
  • Amount of lines: 51
  • 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; and is repeated.

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

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