This is an analysis of the poem Occasion'D By Reading The Memoirs Of Anne Of Austria that begins with:
Ye heedless Fair, who pass the live--long Day,
In Dress and Scandal, Gallantry and Play;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbbb ccdd bbddeeffffggee eehhccddbbaaiiddXdiiee hhjjbbhheehh
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,4,14,22,12,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 1101110111 0111010011 1111010101 1101010001 1111011111 1111011101 0101110011 0101010101 1111010001 0111010001 1101010101 1001000101 1101010001 1111010001 1110011001 1100010111 0101011101 1101010101 10110100101 1101010101 1101010101 1001010101 11010101001 0101110101 0101111101 1001110001 0111010101 1101010101 1100111101 0101010111 1111000101 1001001101 1001000101 11111111011 11111100101 1101110111 11110001111 1011010111 1101010101 1101010111 11010101010 1000010101 1101010111 0101011001 1111111101 1101010101 0111110101 1101111101 1111110101 1101100101 1111111101 0111010111 0101111101 0101010101 0101010111 1111110011 11011110101 1101001101
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 495
- Average number of words per stanza: 89
- Amount of lines: 58
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (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; may, to, my are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words see, when, who, to are repeated.
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