This is an analysis of the poem Miss Bettina Webster, having applied for a Copy of Needwood Forest, December 1785 that begins with:
I call'd my Muse, the rustic came
With Seward's garland on her brows;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abaX cdcd ebeb cXcX dfdf gege hXhX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 11110101 01010101 11010101 11011101 100101111 110101111 11010001 110101011 110011110 110101010 1101011010 110111010 11011101 11100111 11110111 111101010 11111101 11011011 11010101 11010101 110101010 11111101 110101110 10011111 11010111 11000111 11110101 11111101
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 147
- Average number of words per stanza: 28
- Amount of lines: 28
- 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; her, to are repeated.
The author used the same word 'your at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Miss Bettina Webster, having applied for a Copy of Needwood Forest, December 1785;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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