This is an analysis of the poem Friday, The Toilette that begins with:

LYDIA.
Now twenty springs had cloth'd the Park with green, ... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: X aabXccddbbbbeeffgghhfXccddiijjXjhh aaffjjccjjeeffXdaakkXfjjccfffXbbbXffXXXdcXdd
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,34,44,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: heroic couplets
  • Metre: 100 11001110101 11001010001 11010101001 1101010110 0101010111 1111010101 1101010101 1101010001 0101011101 11101000111 101101011101 1111110101 1111010111 1111011101 1111011101 1111010101 0101111101 0101011011 10111010101 1101110101 11011110010 1101001101 1101011101 0111011101 1111111011 1111011001 1111111101 11001010101 1011010101 0101010101 11010101100 1101000101 1101110101 1111010101 10111010101 110101111 1001010101 1101101001 1001010101 11011100101 1001010101 1101011101 10111111101 0111111001 110111011 1101010101 1101010101 1111010111 1100011110 0111000111 1001011101 0111010101 10010000101 1111010001 11111111110 111011101 1011110101 0111010111 1001010111 1101010101 01001010101 11001101001 1101110011 0011010111 1111010101 1101110001 1101011010 11110101100 11110010101 1001010111 0101011001 1101010101 1010101011100 11010101101 1100111111 100110111010 11001010101 1101110101
  • Amount of stanzas: 3
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1188
  • Average number of words per stanza: 208
  • Amount of lines: 79
  • 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; her, of, my, to, false, he, so are repeated.

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

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  • summary of Friday, The Toilette;
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