This is an analysis of the poem Upon A Little Lady that begins with:

Under the Discipline of an Excellent Person.
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  • Rhyme scheme: abaabbccddeeffgX bXbccaacc XXXhhbXiiiicc eeiibXXaaacc XaagXbbjjeX iicceX Xcckkiiiccbbgjcc kkllee bXXXccceeccaabbiibX bXkgjllbXaaggeeffaa iiaaggXXXi
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 16,9,13,12,11,6,16,6,19,19,10,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1001000110010 1 11011000101 1011100101 1101111111 1101000101 11011101 1011010101 1101011 10011111 010110111 11011101 0101010101 01111101 110100111 01110010 01010110 0100101 0101111111 100101 11010001 01110101 10110101 11111101 1111010101 1 010101011001 0101011110 11011100101 1011110101 1001111100 010101101 111101 10011 010101 10011 11000101 01010111 1101110111 11111110001 1001010111 11010101100101 11001101 00110101 11010100 01010101 11110101 0111010111001 1101111101 1111011111 1 0101010001 1011100101 10111101001 1001110001 1101101101 0101010011 01010001010 11010100110 01001011101 11011010100 0101110101 1101000101 1101111101 1001000101 1101010111 1101011101 1 111111 111101 110011 111111 110100101 1111001111 1101011101100 1111010101 1001010011 1111111 1100101 1010101 10110001010 10011101 1101100101 110101 11010111 11011101 0010100101 0101010101 1101110101 1 1101101101 1101011001 1101101101 111100100100 11110101001 1101110101 1101000101 1101001101 1111010111 0111010101 1001010111 1101110101 1111011111 1101011011 1100010101 1100001001 0110110110 01110101 1 111010 110111 010101 0111010 011101 101101 011001 1000111 110101 11011111 010110101 1101011101 10110100101 11011001101 11010101 11010101 01010101 0101010001 1101110011 11010101011 1101011110 111010101 01010101101 1011010101 11110100 01010010 11010100001 111101010101
  • Amount of stanzas: 11
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 464
  • Average number of words per stanza: 85
  • Amount of lines: 137
  • 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; more, and, to, her, thou are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words a, but, by are repeated.

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