This is an analysis of the poem To Lucy, Countess Of Bedford, With John Donne's Satires that begins with:
Lucy, you brightness of our sphere, who are
Life of the Muses' day, their morning star!... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AabbccddXXeeffAa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 16,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 1011001111 1001011101 01111011111 1101110011 11010110101 1011110111 11101010110 1100001101 11101110011 1111011110 11110101001 1111011111 1101110011 0001111111 1011001111 0101011101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 737
- Average number of words per stanza: 134
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 45 (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.
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