This is an analysis of the poem A Tardy Apology that begins with:
You ask me, friend,
Why I don't send... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabccX ddeeee XXXbbX fffggX ffXhhX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111 1111 011111110 1101 1101 01001010 1101 1111 110001110 1111 1101 110111011 1101 0110 100101010 1001 0101 110101010 1111 1110 010100010 10101 1101 110110100 0111 0111 11101111 1101 1101 01010101
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 141
- Average number of words per stanza: 26
- Amount of lines: 30
- Average number of symbols per line: 23 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 4
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of is repeated.
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