This is an analysis of the poem Lines Addressed From London, To Sara And S.T.C. At Bristol, In The Summer Of 1796 that begins with:
Was it so hard a thing? I did but ask
A fleeting holiday, a little week.... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaXXbXcXdX cXXecXbcdXcffe
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1011011011 0101010101 1001011111 1101110001 11011011010 1101000101 1101011101 0101010101 010111111 0101011111 0101011101 1110011111 0111010101 1111010101 10110111010 01011101001 1010101010 10010010101 01011100101 11111101001 1101110101 0101010101 1101011111 1101010111
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 519
- Average number of words per stanza: 94
- Amount of lines: 25
- Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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