This is an analysis of the poem An Epistle To The Earl Of Burlington that begins with:
How happy you! who varied joys pursue;
And every hour presents you something new! ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccddeeeeeeffffggeehheebbbbcciijjkkiXggXlbbbbkkggeemmkkggiieeekkliccffiibbjjee
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 81,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1101110101 110010101101 1111011001 1111110111 01000010011 0101110101 1101001001 1101010101 1011010101 1101010101 0111011101 1001110111 0111110101 1001110001 0101100101 010010010111 0101110101 00110110001 1101011101 1101011101 11011101010 01011101110 1001010111 1101011111 0101110101 1101010101 1101010101 0011010001 1101010101 1111010001 0111010111 1011011101 11010101001 11110101001 1011110101 1101010101 0101111101 1101010111 10111011101 0101010110 111111101 11010010101 1101010001 11010101010 1101010011 11111101001 01010111011 0101000101 01001110111 0101111111 1101011101 1001010101 0111100111 0101110001 01001011001 1001110001 1111010001 1011010001 1101010101 110101110101 0101110101 0101010101 1100110011 11110011111 1101011101 0101010111 1101010001 11010111010 101101110101 1101111001 1101010101 1101010101 1101010101 10001110101 1101010101 1111110101 0101010101 1101010111 1101011101 1100011101 1101010101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 3630
- Average number of words per stanza: 621
- Amount of lines: 81
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- 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; your, you, her, in, so, by are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words but, the, your, her, so are repeated.
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