This is an analysis of the poem Epistle Ii: To A Lady (Of The Characters Of Women ) that begins with:

NOTHING so true as what you once let fall,
"Most Women have no Characters at all." ... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXbb ccddeeffeegg bbgg hhhhhXee ddiihhjj hXjX cchhddjjddgg ddXbkkeekkjjjjgg hhddggggeeggggddiX fflXaaddjjggll ggXjbXiXjjgggg dXmmjjeeddnnggaaddggiillggggjjiiXbbb eegghh Xgggggooddggbbggbbeeddjj eeaaaaggjjddpeppaa eeddddii ddff ggXg hhqq jjnnkkggeeff ccggd
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,12,4,8,8,4,12,16,18,14,14,36,6,24,18,8,4,4,4,12,12,6,8,12,12,12,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: heroic couplets
  • Metre: 1011111111 101011100110 1011010101 1101011111 1101001111 1101110111 10010101001 0101010101 1101010101 1101010001 110111001 0100111101 1101010101 01001011101 10010100110 01010101110 1101010101 1001110101 10110101100 111101000001 10111101001 01111100001 01110101001 1101000101 1101010101 0101011101 1101110110 1111000101 1101010001 0111000111 0001010101 1010010001 1011111101 1111010111 1111010101 1111010101 10010001001 110110100010 0101010111 11011010010010 1011000101 1011011111 1101110001 1101010101 1101111101 1011001101 0101110101 1111010111 1101110111 1111011111 1111110001 1111010111 1001010001 0101110101 1101010101 11010010111 1111000101 1101010101 1101010001 1111011101 1111010101 0101010101 11010101010 11010001110 1101011101 10101010111 0101000101 1101010101 1101010001 1101010101 1001010101 0101010101 1111110101 0101110101 1011000101 1101011101 11110010101 10110101101 1101010001 0101010101 10011110111 1111011101 1100100111 1011010101 11101000111 1101010101 1001111101 0111110001 1101100101 0101010110100 11111100001 1001010001 1111110001 0111010111 1101010101 01110001011 0111010001 0111001101 1101011111 1101010101 1101111101 1111111100 1011011101 0111010101 1011011101 1100010101 1011111101 1101100111100 1101110001 0111001011 0101001101 0111011111 1011111101 1111010111 1111011001 1101111100 1001110001 1101111011 1001011101 10100111101 1101010101 1001110101 1100011001 0101111101 0101010001 1101000101 1101010101 0101010101 1100010101 1101011101 0101010001 1101011101 0111011111 1001011101 01001110101 11010011001 0101111001 0101111111 1111011101 1101110101 1101111011 0101010001 1101010001 1101011101 11010001101 1001110100 1001010101 1001010111 01010110101 1101010001 1011110001 1111111001 11001010101 1101011101 1111010101 1001110111 101011101011 1000111101 10101010101 11110101101 1101111111 1101011101 10111101010 10010100110 1101000101 1101011001 1101010101 11010111001 1111010101 0111010111 0101010101 11011011101 101101011 110111101 0101110101 1110010101 1101010111 1101010001 1001011101 1101111101 1101011101 1111011101 0111010111 0111010111 1011010110 1111111101 1111011111 0101001101 1101001111 1111010001 11001010101 1101001101 01000111010 10010111010 0111011101 0101110111 0111011111 0101011101 1101010111 0101010101 1101001101 1101010001 1001010111 1101011111 1011000111 1111010101 01110010101 0101110101 1101111101 0101010101 1101110101 0101110101 01000110101 1101010101 1101010101 1101001101 1101010101 1101010111 1101001101 1111110101 0111001101 1101001011 1101010111 1101110011 11010001101 1101000111 1011011101 1101110001 1101010101 1111010111 1001110101 1101110101 1011010111 0101010111 1101011101 0111010001 0101110101 0101011111 1111011111 1111010001 1111010101 1101011101 1101010001 0101011101 1011010011 1011010101 011111011101 0101001101 1101010101 0101110101 1111110101 1111110001 11011111001 1101011101 0101010011 11000010101 1101011001 1101110101 1111010111 1101001001 1111010101 1011110111 1101010101 1101011101 1111011110 0111010110 1101110101 1100011101 1101101111 1011010101 1101010101 0111110101 10110101001 11010101001 10010011001 1101001101 0101010110 1001010001 1100010101 1101010101 0001010010 1101111101 0101010101 1111110101 01010111001 0101110101 1111011001 11110101001 01001111101 1101011101 11110001110 01110101010
  • Amount of stanzas: 26
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 498
  • Average number of words per stanza: 89
  • Amount of lines: 292
  • Average number of symbols per line: 44 (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; how, it, in, her, their, to, and, of, too, with, or, you, by, some, she, chloe, out, this are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words all, now, with, by, some, in, and are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines it is repeated).

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