This is an analysis of the poem To Quilca, A Country-House In No Very Good Repair that begins with:
Let me thy Properties explain,
A rotten Cabin, dropping Rain;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbXcddccee
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11110001 01010101 10010101 11011111 11001111 110111010 01111101 100111101 11010111 01010101 10110001 11110101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 438
- Average number of words per stanza: 74
- Amount of lines: 12
- Average number of symbols per line: 36 (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; and is repeated.
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