This is an analysis of the poem On My Sister Joanna's Entrance Into Her 33rd Year that begins with:
On this thy natal day permit a friend -
A brother - with thy joys his own to blend:... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabb XXcdaa eeffcdggXaffXb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,6,14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 1010110101 0100110101 011011101 1100110101 1001010101 0110111101 1111010101 1111111101 0100110101 110100100001 1101111101 1101011101 0101010101 01010100001 0001111101 1101010111 10011001101 1101010001 01010101010 1111110001 1101010101 1101011101 110100101010 1101010111
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 342
- Average number of words per stanza: 62
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to, thy, and are repeated.
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