This is an analysis of the poem Mrs Frances Haris's Petition that begins with:

To their Excellencies the Lords Justices of Ireland,
The humble petition of Frances Harris,... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: abXcadaeefffXeaXefebXXXggffaahhXaXXghXXXiieebbcdddXXejjkXeeaXllccXmiXccmXcXmmkknncc
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 83,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 01110011000100 01001001010 111110100100 101011101110101010011 11 11100110111011001 1001011 101110101111011 110101110010011 11110111101011 11101011111001011 110110101110111 11110111111110111100 101010000110101 101111110111001 1111111011111100 1111101111101101 111111111111111 11 1101101111011101 111011111110110 111110110110010 111110010101010110 1101101110111 110110111011111111 111011111111011 110101110101101 111011011111011 1001001011100101011 11101110111010 111101111101010 1011111111111101111 1111110111101 11110101011011 111111010111 110111100100111001 01 1010101111010101 110101010111111100 10110101010101000 11100100101110101 11110110011101 1101101010101001 11011101101001101 11111001011001 10111010010001 11101110110101101 10 01111100101000110 11011111010101 11110111011011 1101111100111011 1111010111110101 111111100101 1101011011111101 11111111100101 111101101000110 1010101010110111 0111101101111101 110101100111011110 1011111001001010100 111111001101010 1011110101100110 01100110101111 11111110011101 111010101000111101 1111010111110111 1111001101000101 110110111010001110 01110010111011111 11111101111101 11111111111111 1111101111111 111111011111 11110011111110101 111110101010110 1111111110110101 0100100010101011000010 11111010111010 11010111111100010 0110101001110101010 111101001111 10101101101011101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 5060
  • Average number of words per stanza: 1019
  • Amount of lines: 83
  • Average number of symbols per line: 60 (very long strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 12
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, my, i, to, as, it, ', mary, me, says, her, you, be, that, your are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words so, and are repeated.

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

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