This is an analysis of the poem A Letter From A Girl To Her Own Old Age that begins with:

Listen, and when thy hand this paper presses,
O time-worn woman, think of her who blesses ... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aaa bbb ccc ccc bbb ddd eee fff fff eee ggg Xee dddXaaa
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,7,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 10111101010 11110100110 11110100010 11010100111 11011111011 10010011111 110100101010 11010101010 11110101010 11010011010 101101001010 010110011010 10110111011 00111101011 001101011011 11010111110 01011101110 01010001010 10010101010 11010101010 11011101010 11001101111 01001101111 110110001011 11110011100 11011111010 11010111110 11110100010 01010011010 01001111010 10111011110 10110101110 11110101010 11111111110 11111101010 11110111010 100111010010 11010101010 11110111010 01111101010 010010111010 01011101110
  • Amount of stanzas: 14
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 142
  • Average number of words per stanza: 26
  • Amount of lines: 42
  • Average number of symbols per line: 47 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 9
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, that, thee, not, it, and, hush, so, o are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words o, of, only, with are repeated.

    The author used the same word o 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 thee, not, it are repeated).

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