This is an analysis of the poem To Miss R.: On Her Attendance On Her Mother At Buxton that begins with:

When blooming beauty in the noon of power,
While offered joys demand each sprightly hour,... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabbccddee dXffbb ccgghheeccii ffjjbbjjbbdd
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,6,12,12,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: heroic couplets
  • Metre: 11010001010 11010111010 0111011101 1101011001 1111010101 0011000101 0111010101 1011110101 1101110111 1101011101 1011010101 0111001001100 1101110101 0100010001 1101011111 0111000101 1111110101 11011101001 1111110101 1101011101 1011010101 1111000101 1011110101 11000011101 1011010101 0101110101 1101110101 1101010101 1011111101 1101000101 1101110101 1101011101 1101011101 1101010101 1001011111 1111110101 1101111101 11111100101 1111010001 1100100111010
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 454
  • Average number of words per stanza: 78
  • Amount of lines: 40
  • 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; thy is repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words to, thy are repeated.

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