This is an analysis of the poem To The Countess Of Bedford Ii that begins with:
TO have written then, when you writ, seem'd to me
Worst of spiritual vices, simony ; ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcXcXaaddeeeeffXghhcchhffhhggaaiiffeeffffiiffihhffhhjjXfaaggcceehhgXbbhhkkcceecXeeiikkhhgg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 91,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 01101111101 10100010100 11011011101 1101010100 0011111001 0111011000 1111101111 1111111101 1110110111 1101011101 1111010111 1111111111 1001010101 1101011111 1101110111 011100101 11000010110 1100011111 1001011101 1001111101 11011100101 1011010101 1011010101 1101010111 1111011101 0101111101 1101111101 0101010101 1111010001 1100110100 1101110100 1101010101 1001111111 0101111111 1010011001 1111111101 1101000101 1101010101 1111110111 1001010101 1111010101 0111110101 0111111101 1101010101 11001001011 11001010101 111111111 1 1111011101 0101001101 0101100101 1011010101 00010110011 1111110111 1111010101 1101111100 1001101100 110101010 1101110001 110110110111 1111110100 11010010101 1000111110 1101011100 1111110111 1101110111 1111110101 11000101011 1111000100 11111100100 00101111100 1111010101 1111100101 10111000110 1001001101 1001101101 1011110101 1101011101 010101010 1100011101 1001001100 111101010 010111010 1011011101 0101010001 1111101111 1101100100 1011011101 1111010101 1111011010 0101011100
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 3980
- Average number of words per stanza: 705
- Amount of lines: 91
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (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, i, we, and, souls, of, vice are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word in is repeated.
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