This is an analysis of the poem Answered, For Lord William Hamilton that begins with:
Good Madam, when ladies are willing,
A man must needs look like a fool; ... full text
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- Rhyme scheme: ababacacadad
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 010110110 01111101 111111010 11111101 1111011110 11101011 11011010 11001001 110010010 11111011 1011110110 01011011
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 445
- Average number of words per stanza: 86
- Amount of lines: 12
- Average number of symbols per line: 36 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words for, 'tis are repeated.
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