This is an analysis of the poem To Mrs. M. B. On Her Birthday that begins with:
Oh be thou blest with all that Heav'n can send,
Long Health, long Youth, long Pleasure, and a Friend:... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabXXXXbbbccddbbeeff
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 20,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 1011011111 1111110101 1011011101 10111100110 0100011101 1101110101 11111111110 1111110101 0101110111 11010000101 11111100110 1011000111 1101100101 1011110111 1101111111 0101010101 1110110101 0111110001 1011010001 11010000101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 875
- Average number of words per stanza: 166
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (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; long, that are repeated.
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