This is an analysis of the poem Stella At Wood Park, A House Of Charles Ford, Esq., Near Dublin that begins with:

Don Carlos, in a merry spight,
Did Stella to his house invite:... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabbccddddeeaXXXffeeffggeehebbhhiiaaiiffeebbjjbbkklljjddjjXakkmmbbXXeeeebbnnXXaaffeemmeeddnn
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 92,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11000101 01000101 11010101 010011101 110101010 1111001010 01010111 11110101 11010111 01000101 11110001 01110001 01010101 01010110 11010011 11010101 11011101 01010101 11011101 01110111 111101010 010111010 11010101 01011101 01010101 11011101 0101110100 010101010 01010111 01001101 010111010 010101010 010101110 000101110 0100101010 010111010 0100110010 010111010 01010101 01001001 01110101 00110001 01010001 01011101 11010101 11010101 01011111 01010101 11001101 01010101 11010001 11010101 01010101 01010111 01010101 11010101 01011101 11101101 01010110 11110001 100010101 11110001 11011101 11010111 11011101 01010111 01010001 11001101 11010111 11010101 11000101 11010101 11011111 11110101 11010101 01110111 11001110 11110110 11010101 11010101 110111110 111101010 11011101 11010111 11110111 01010101 010001001 11110101 11110101 01011001 11110001 01001101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 3192
  • Average number of words per stanza: 591
  • Amount of lines: 92
  • Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to, her, your are repeated.

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

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