This is an analysis of the poem To the Honourable Elizabeth Sedley, Learning to Spin that begins with:
To the Honourable Elizabeth Sedley, Learning to Spin, She and the Author equally having an aversion to a Spider.
Wou'd you, though true what... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: a bbXXccddXeaaddXa ddXfggdd ffhheeeeiciieebb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,16,8,16,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 001000100101001110101001010100010 111111010 111111010 101101010 11011110 11110111 11100101 01000111 01000101 0100010010 111100111 110101010 101100110 110101110 1100100110 110111011 100101010 111111010 01010001110 10111110 00111101 111101110 111101010 11110101 10011111 11111101 11000101 11010001 001010001 110111011 111111011 11010111 11011101 111111010 110111010 110101110 110100010 111101011 100101011 11110101 11011111
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 403
- Average number of words per stanza: 73
- Amount of lines: 41
- Average number of symbols per line: 38 (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, you are repeated.
The author used the same word wou'd at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines you is repeated).
The poet repeated the same word spider at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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