This is an analysis of the poem Orinda To Lucasia Parting October 1661 At London that begins with:

Adieu dear object of my Love's excess,
And with thee all my hopes of happiness,... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabbccbbddaaeeffXdbbghaaddiiggccjjghbbiiddggXkiigXbbllbbkkjj aacckkjjjj Xd
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 60,10,2,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: heroic couplets
  • Metre: 0111001111 1011110100 001101011 1001110101 1111011101 1101000001 1001111001 1111011100 111101010 111011001 1101011100 1101010101 0101011101 1101110101 1111110101 1101010011 1111110100 0001010001 1111011101 0110010011 1011010111 1110101100 11001010011 1111010000 1101001111 1110010111 1011110101 1010010011 1111111111 1101110111 1101010111 1101010101 1111010101 1111111101 1111001111 0111101100 1101111100 01110001101 111111101 10101000101 1111010101 1101101101 1111010101 1111111111 1111111100 1111010101 1111010101 0111010111 111101101 11110100011 1101100101 1111010111 1111011111 1111110101 1111010111 1011011100 1111011101 1111011101 1111110111 0011110101 1111010101 10010110100 1111110101 01011101010 1101110111 0111111101 1111110011 1101011101 1111111101 0111110111 0100010
  • Amount of stanzas: 3
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 984
  • Average number of words per stanza: 188
  • Amount of lines: 72
  • Average number of symbols per line: 40 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 8
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i is repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.

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