This is an analysis of the poem To Her Most Honoured Father Thomas Dudley Esq; These Humbly Presented. that begins with:
Dear Sir of late delighted with the sight
Of your four Sisters cloth'd in black and white,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccddeeffgXXfhhiiffjjkkdXffXgffllcceehhjj
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 44,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 1101010001 0111010111 0101011101 1101001101 1111011111 1100011101 0111111111 01110101101 1111011101 1101110111 1111111101 0111010111 1111111100 1101011000 11110111010 1111010001 1111011101 1101010101 1101010101 1111111101 01011101011 0101010100 1100111111 1101011111 1010111111 1111101111 1101011011 1101110110 1111010111 1111110101 1101010111 1101011100 1001111001 1111010111 1101111101 1111111111 1010111101 1101011001 1111110001 1101011101 1111111111 0111111001 0010111101 1100010101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1958
- Average number of words per stanza: 368
- Amount of lines: 44
- 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; of, their, to, four, my, that, these, for, how, and, i are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words of, their, to, these, my, how are repeated.
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