This is an analysis of the poem Mrs. Payne, that begins with:
Wife of Right Rev. Bishop PAYNE, died at Monrovia, Liberia.
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Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: X aXab XaXc XdcdXXefgeXXfgfb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,4,4,16,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 10111011111000100 1111011100 0101010101 0111001101 1101010100 1101100101 11010011101 1101010101 0101111101 0101011101 1111001101 1011100101 01111011011 1111011111 1100110001 1101000101 1111011111 01010001010 0100110101 1111011111 10111101010 1100010110 1101000001 1101100111 110100
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 262
- Average number of words per stanza: 46
- Amount of lines: 26
- Average number of symbols per line: 40 (medium-length strings)
- 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; thy is repeated.
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