This is an analysis of the poem Epistle To Mrs. Tyler that begins with:
It ever was allow'd, dear Madam,
Ev'n from the days of father Adam, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaXXbbcXddee ffeeXg gghhiicceeccjjiiddkkhh
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,6,22,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 010101110 100101010 010101010 1100010010 000111001 11011101 110111010 110100010 11001101 111101101 11110101 01010101 111101010 010110010 11011111 11011101 1101111000 1111110100 111101110 001011010 11111111 11011101 0101110101 1101101101 11110111 01000101 111111111 111101111 111111110 111100010 101110110 1100101010 11110101 01010101 01010111 11101001 111100101 11010101 11110010100 1111110100
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 491
- Average number of words per stanza: 88
- Amount of lines: 40
- Average number of symbols per line: 36 (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; for, and, ye are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines for is repeated).
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