This is an analysis of the poem To Mr. Murray that begins with:

To hook the reader, you, John Murray,
Have publish'd 'Anjou's Margaret,... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: ababXXbcc daadaabb X
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,8,1,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 010101110 11010100 110110010 11011011 1111000101 0101111100 11111001 01110111 11111101 11111101 110101110 1101010010 11100101 110111010 10110101010 111101001001 1101000111 111
  • Amount of stanzas: 3
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 219
  • Average number of words per stanza: 41
  • Amount of lines: 18
  • 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; you is repeated.

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