This is an analysis of the poem A Letter For My Son To One Of His School--Fellows, Son To Henry Rose, Esq; that begins with:

Dear Rose, as I lately was writing some Verse,
Which I next Day intended in School to rehearse,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabbccddeXffaaggeehhaaaX ddbbccii
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 24,8,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: heroic couplets
  • Metre: 11111011011 111101001001 11010111111 01001011011 11011101110 111010111010 01101001101 11001101101 111101101001 11111001011 11101111101 11101001101 111011001101 11111111001 01001011001 11101111001 11111011111 11011001001 111010010010 101001110010 111111101001 11011001001 11001011101 111011110010 01111111001 11001011011 11011111111 11001101011 11001101111 11001101101 11111011011 11101001001
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 779
  • Average number of words per stanza: 145
  • Amount of lines: 32
  • Average number of symbols per line: 48 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 9
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, you, to, his, and, but are repeated.

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