This is an analysis of the poem A Letter Written For My Daughter To A Lady, Who Had Presented Her With A Cap. that begins with:

Your late kind Gift let me restore;
For I must never wear it more....

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabbccXXddaa eeXXXdddXX eeffeeggXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,10,10,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11111101 11110101 11011101 01010111 00111111 11010101 01110101 01011110 10010011 11010101 01010101 11110111 01110011 11100101 11011101 11110100 11011110 11011101 11010101 10010111 01011101 11010101 01011101 11111011 11111101 11111111 111111010 110101010 11010111 100110101 11010111 01110011
  • Amount of stanzas: 3
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 384
  • Average number of words per stanza: 70
  • Amount of lines: 32
  • Average number of symbols per line: 35 (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; she is repeated.

If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:

  • summary of A Letter Written For My Daughter To A Lady, Who Had Presented Her With A Cap.;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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