This is an analysis of the poem An Epistle From A Gentleman To Madam Deshouliers that begins with:

URANIA, whom the Town admires,
Whose Wit and Beauty share our Praise; ... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: aaaabcbc dede fefegghhcccXacaXaaaa ciic ggdddddddX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,4,20,4,10,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 10010101 11110111 01100101 01010101 11100101 10111111 11110111 11010110 10010011 11010101 01000101 01011101 11110111 1100000101 0111010011 0101010101 10010101 0101010001 0111010011 0101000101 1111110100 110111111101 11110101 110100100 11110101 1111010101 1101010111 11010111 01010101 01010101 11010001 11010101 11110101 11010111 11011111 11011011 111110101 11111101 11001101 11010101 00011101 10100001 11010101 11000111 01010101 10010010
  • Amount of stanzas: 5
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 341
  • Average number of words per stanza: 57
  • Amount of lines: 46
  • Average number of symbols per line: 36 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, her, i are repeated.

    The author used the same word and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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