This is an analysis of the poem Fragment that begins with:

SO here confin'd, and but to female Clay,
ARDELIA's Soul mistook the rightful Way: ... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabbccaaddeeeeefXgghhggeeaaiijjkkaaffll
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 39,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 1101110111 1001010101 10110100101 1001010011 1100010101 0101010101 0101010101 1100111111 11010101001 110101110001 1111010101 0111110101 011011101101 1101010001 0011000101 1111010111 11110101011 10110101010 0101011111010 1101111001 0101010101 010010110001 01010010011 11110011101 0101010101 1110110101 1101000101 1001011101 1111000101 1101111101 10100011101 10101010001 0101010101 010010110101 11100111101 1111110101 1110110101 0111011110 11010111001010
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1788
  • Average number of words per stanza: 291
  • Amount of lines: 39
  • Average number of symbols per line: 45 (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.

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