This is an analysis of the poem On Lucy, Countess Of Bedford that begins with:
This morning, timely rapt with holy fire,
I thought to form unto my zealous Muse ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abaXbcbccdcdebebfddf
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 20,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 01010101010 1101101101 11010111010 0101111101 1101011111 0101111011 1101111101 11110000101 11110100101 1011010101 1111010111 1011010001 100110101 110001101010 0101010101 01001101110 1111011101 111 10 11111
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 792
- Average number of words per stanza: 148
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 39 (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; and is repeated.
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