This is an analysis of the poem Lavinia that begins with:

The lovely young Lavinia once had friends;
And fortune smiled deceitful on her birth:... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXbcddbadceddafafXabadgfgaXXeeXacaXdbX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 38,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 0101010111 1101010101 1001000101 010011100110 1001010101 1110010101 0101000101 1101110101 1111010001 0101110101 1101010011 0101011101 1111010101 1011110001 1011000101 0111010101 1011010111 1001010101 0101010001 1101010101 11010001010 1101010101 0101010101 1001110101 0101010101 1101010101 10010111010 01010111000 1101010100 1011010101 1001011101 01010110001 1001010101 01010001001 0101010101 11010101001 1101010111 01010
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1588
  • Average number of words per stanza: 271
  • Amount of lines: 38
  • Average number of symbols per line: 41 (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; her is repeated.

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