This is an analysis of the poem Sonnet 10 that begins with:

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Daughter to that good Earl, once President... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: X abcaXbbaXdaXdaXac
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,17,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: limerick
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1 1001011101 0101010100 1101010111 1101100110 1011001100 1111010100 1100100100 10001111100 11011011010 1011010111 1011111101 1111010101 1111100101 10010100100 1110101100010100 1
  • Amount of stanzas: 3
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 224
  • Average number of words per stanza: 38
  • Amount of lines: 17
  • Average number of symbols per line: 39 (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; to is repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines margaret is repeated).

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