To John Forbes, Esq. by Helen Maria Williams: poem analysis

This is an analysis of the poem To John Forbes, Esq. that begins with:

ON HIS BRINGING ME FLOWERS FROM VAUCLUSE, AND
WHICH HE HAD PRESERVED BY MEANS OF... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXbX ccccddddXX aaaaccddeeffccbbee
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,10,18,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 10101100101 11101110 10101101 010010 110101010 110111010 11010111 11010111 100101001 11000111 110101001 01010101 01010101 11010010 11010101 11011101 111101001 11110101 11010101 11000101 110100111 011000101 10110111 01111101 10010101 11010101 111101110 111101010 11010101 11111101 01110101 11110101
  • Amount of stanzas: 3
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 388
  • Average number of words per stanza: 67
  • Amount of lines: 33
  • Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 6

  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; where is repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words i, where are repeated.

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