This is an analysis of the poem Lines Addressed To A Young Lady that begins with:
Doubtless, sweet girl! the hissing lead,
Wafting destruction o'er thy charms, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab cdcd eaea dfdf ghgh idid jhjh iiii diXi
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 10110101 100101011 110101101 11110101 101100101 10011101 01010101 01000101 101101010 01011111 1100100010 01010101 110111001 01110101 111110101 010101001 111010101 11111101 01011101 11001101 11010101 01011101 01010101 11010101 01010111 00011101 11111111 11010101 11011101 1100011 11110101 10011111 11010111 11110101 11110110 10011100
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 142
- Average number of words per stanza: 24
- Amount of lines: 36
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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