This is an analysis of the poem A Warning To Ladies that begins with:

Deah Ladies,
Let me wawn you, theah are feahful taimes to come,... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXbXXbXXXXX cdaadeceec acaacXaXXa XdffdgghhX XeXeiiXXi
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 11,10,10,10,9,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 110 111111101001 1011101011 1111101 0110111 00111011101 101010100010010 11101110111 1011010 0010111 11100010001 101110101110001 10100010101 1011111 11000101 101000110101 101011100011101 1110111011 1010101 1010101 11111011101 110010101110101 10100110101 1100010 10101010 01100010001 101110101010111 01101110111 10100010 11111110 11101010101 11011000010101 101011100011 11110010 11100110 101000101011 11010100110111 11101010101 01101010 00101010 11100110111 11010101011111 1101111101 11110101010101 10111001101 111010101110101 111001101110011 1100010111 01000111 11110101010101
  • Amount of stanzas: 5
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 433
  • Average number of words per stanza: 79
  • Amount of lines: 54
  • 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; to, ouah, and, he, as, must, we are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, we'll, he, 0, we are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines know, deahs are repeated).

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