This is an analysis of the poem To Mrs. M. A. Upon Absence that begins with:
Tis now since I began to die
Four months, yet still I gasping live;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcc dcXcee aeaedd fafXgg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11110101 11111101 11010111 10110001 10010101 11010101 11111101 10010101 11010011 01100101 11010111 01010101 11011101 11110101 100011111 10111011 01111101 11111101 10111101 11011111 10011101 11110100 11111111 11111101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 203
- Average number of words per stanza: 39
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (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; i is repeated.
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