Poem Analysis of To A Friend On His Travels by Lady Mary Wortley Montagu for close reading

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From this vile town, immers'd in smoke and care,
To you who brighten in a purer air, ... full text

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Rhyme scheme: aabbaXccaaccddddeeffbbXXeeggbbffddccaaaa
Stanza lengths (in strings): 40,
Closest metre: iambic pentameter
Сlosest rhyme: couplets
Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
Guessed form: heroic couplets
Metre: 0011010111 0111000101 11010101001 1101010101 1101110101 1100101110010 0101111101 1101011111 11010100101 0100010101 11010111001 0101000111 0111110101 0011010101 1101010101 1101110101 0101011101 11010101001 0111011101 1111000111 11010101001 1011000111 1111100101 0101010110 0101110101 01010100101 01010001101 1101010011 1101110101 1101010101 0101110001 0011000101 11011010111 01001010001 1101011111 0111010101 0111110101 1101010101 1101010111 1101011001
Amount of stanzas: 1
Average number of symbols per stanza: 1713
Average number of words per stanza: 288
Amount of lines: 40
Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
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; your, and are repeated.

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