This is an analysis of the poem To Miss Mitford: Authoress Of that begins with:

The single eye, the daughter of the light;
Well pleased to recognise in lowliest shade... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abbaXbbaccddcd X
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,1,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: rondeau
  • Metre: 0101010001 1101000101 1100010111 1101010101 0101110110 0101110101 1111000111 1101011101 11010001001 0111011111 1111010101 1011111101 0101011101 0101010111 1001
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 315
  • Average number of words per stanza: 55
  • Amount of lines: 16
  • 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; of, and are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word by is repeated.

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