This is an analysis of the poem A Woman Of Quality that begins with:

Matchless in breeding and beauty,
a fine lady has taken refuge...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXabcbbdefghcXfXXhXiiagjebdbkbbkjiXikbfbX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 41,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 10010110 011011010 0001010 100010011 101011001 11110111 101010010 0100101 110100110 1111001 011111100 0111001 111111 100011 100001 010001010 11010110 100110110 10011001 11001 111011 111110 101101 10111 001110 10010 01100111 11010011 0010010 010101 01001 1101010 0101001 0100101 11101 1011010 101010110 01011 111101 1101 1110101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1177
  • Average number of words per stanza: 218
  • Amount of lines: 41
  • Average number of symbols per line: 28 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 5
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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