This is an analysis of the poem Town Eclogues: Monday; Roxana Or The Drawing-Room that begins with:
ROXANA from the court retiring late,
Sigh'd her soft sorrows at St. JAMES's gate:... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaaXbb bbccddddeebbffccbXddaaggcchhddgg eeeeiieeddeejjcc eeggXiihhccaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,32,16,13,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 0100010101 1011011101 1101110001 1011011110 1101011101 1011010101 11010111101 11011110111 11100111101 11101010001 11011010111 11111011111 11111110101 111010111011 11101110011 1110110101 11010011101 11100111101 10101110101 11101010111 11101011101 10100011101 11011100101 11011011101 10111001101 11111011111 11101011111 11101011111 11101010101 11111011111 11111010101 10101010111 11111010101 10101000101 11111010101 111011101101 11111010101 111110001001 11100010001 11111011101 11100010101 10111011101 11101001101 11100011101 11101101011 11111110101 11101110111 11101111001 11011110101 11011110101 11101011101 11110010101 10101000101 101001000111 11111011101 11101010101 11101010101 10111110111 11101101101 110010100101 10101010101 11101010101 10101011101 11101010101 10100110111 10101001101
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 657
- Average number of words per stanza: 102
- Amount of lines: 66
- Average number of symbols per line: 49 (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, for, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word a is repeated.
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