This is an analysis of the poem An Address To Miss Phillis Wheatly that begins with:
O, come you pious youth: adore
The wisdom of thy God....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab bbbB cdcX adad eded edeb dcbc dddd abfb abab abab eXeb gbXB bebe bdbd Xbcb hghg dfbf bXbd eeee edXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11110101 010011 01010101 010101 110101 010101 11010101 110101 11011101 111101 11011101 111011 11010111 1100101 01011101 110101 1101101 110101 11010111 010101 11010110 010101 011011 0100101 0110111 010101 010101001 110101 11110101 010011 1110101 111100 1110101 110101 111111110 101001 11010101 110101 0110101 010011 1110101 110001 01010111 110111 11010110 010011 01010111 0100001 11011101 110111 1010101 110101 01010001 110101 11011101 110111 11010101 010001 01011101 110101 1110010 011001 11001101 110101 11010101 110101 11011101 111101 11110101 1101010 11010101 1101010 01011101 110101 11111011 011101 01011101 101101 11010101 0100011 11000011 0101010 11110100 110101
- Amount of stanzas: 21
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 121
- Average number of words per stanza: 22
- Amount of lines: 84
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- 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; thou, his are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words his, the are repeated.
The author used the same word when at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word word at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of An Address To Miss Phillis Wheatly;
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- idea of the verse;
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