This is an analysis of the poem To A Lady Upon A Looking-Glass Sent that begins with:

When this crystal shall present
Your beauty to your eye, ... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: ababccddee
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1010101 110011 1110111 010101 110101 110101 0111 1001 0101000101 1101011111
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 293
  • Average number of words per stanza: 54
  • Amount of lines: 10
  • Average number of symbols per line: 28 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 5
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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

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