This is an analysis of the poem To The Lady Dursley that begins with:
Here reading how fond Adam was betray'd,
And how by sin Eve's blasted charms decay'd,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabb ccdd eeffXaaff
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 1101110101 11111010101 1101010101 1111001101 1111001111 0101010101 1101000101 0101111001001 11010101001 110100110011 11110111101 11110111101 0101111101 0101111101 1111110001 1111011101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 182
- Average number of words per stanza: 32
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 45 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; had, nor are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word nor is repeated.
The author used the same word you at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines boast is repeated).
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