This is an analysis of the poem To Mrs. Ward. By The Same. that begins with:

O thou, my beauteous, ever tender Friend,
Thou, on whom all my worldly Joys depend,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabbcc XbddeeffggXbhbccccii ffddddffaaee ffcXjjaXkkbbgg jjXXiibbaabXllffaaaaffbbmmggaa aaccllccnnii kkgg ooaaffccggdjccppaa bbhbbbaaXjXeellaaaahbiibbaajj
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,20,12,14,30,12,4,18,29,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: limerick
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 1111010101 1111110101 0111010101 1001110111 1101010101 1111111101 1111010101 1101010101 1101010101 1001110001 1101110101 0101010101 0111000101 1101110101 1111010101 1111110001 10110011010 1011010101 1101010110 1101000111 0111000101 0111001001 0110011101 0101000111 1101010101 1111110011 10011101001 1101011101 1011010101 1111010101 0101000101 110010001001 0101010101 1001001101 1101010101 1001010011 110010100101 1001011101 1101011101 1101000111 1111010101 0101010110 1101010101 0101110101 1111110101 1101011000 1111110101 1111110111 0111010101 1101001101 1011010101 1101000111 0111010101 11011110011 11010110001 1011010101 1011010101 0101010101 01010000101 1111010111 1111111101 0101111111 1111011101 10011010011 1111010101 1101011101 1101110101 1111011101 1101010101 1101010101 1101011001 1001010110 1101111101 1101011101 1111110101 1001110111 1111110101 0101011111 0101010101 11010010001 11010010101 1111111101 0101010101 0101010001 0111110101 0111110101 11010010101 1111000101 1101110101 1111000101 1111000101 1110110001 1100001001 1101011011 1001110101 1111011101 1101011001 1111110101 1111010101 0101010101 0101010001 1111010101 1011010101 1101010001 1101010101 1101010101 1101010101 0111011101 1111110101 0101110101 1111100111 0101010101 1111011101 1101010101 1101010101 11110010101 0111001101 1101110111 11011100010 1011011101 1111110101 1011010101 1101110101 1111011001 1100110110 1001010001 10010010011 0111011101 1010110101 1001011111 1101010101 0101010101 1101110001 1101110111 11110110010 1111010101 1101010101 0101010101 1101010101 1110110101 0111110101 1101011101 0111110011 0111110111
  • Amount of stanzas: 10
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 620
  • Average number of words per stanza: 107
  • Amount of lines: 144
  • 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, with, i, my, nor, to, in, thy are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words to, without are repeated.

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  • summary of To Mrs. Ward. By The Same.;
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  • history of its creation;
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