This is an analysis of the poem On The Countess Of Burlington Cutting Paper that begins with:
Pallas grew vapourish once, and odd,
She would not do the least right thing,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab cdXd efef cgcg XhXh
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 101100111 11110111 10110111 11111111 111101111 110111110 110100111 110111110 01011101 111100101 11111111 01001101 10111011 11110101 01110111 01010101 01110101 11010101 110101100 01110011
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 146
- Average number of words per stanza: 27
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 36 (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; nor, and, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.
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