This is an analysis of the poem The Widow Gordon's Petition that begins with:
To the Right Hon. the Lady Carteret.
Weary'd with long Attendance on the Court,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: a aabb cc aadd eeaaXf ggcchhcc eeeeiiiiee aaeeXffeecchhiidd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,4,2,4,6,8,10,17,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 0011000010100 1001010101 110101101 0101010111 1101001101 1111110101 1111010111 11110111101 0111110011 1111010101 1101110101 1101011101 1101010101 1001000101 1110010101 01011101100 111010001 1101110101 11101000101 1111011101 1111011101 1101001101 11010110101 1111010101 1101010101 1011011101 1111010011 1101110101 1111100111 1001011011 1101010001 11110100101 1101011101 0111010101 1011011101 1101010101 1101010001 1101010101 0101110111 0101110001 0101010101 1101011111 1111010101 1101010011 0111011101 1011110101 1101010101 1111010001 0100010111 1101010101 1110010101
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 241
- Average number of words per stanza: 44
- Amount of lines: 51
- 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; his, my are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words who, this are repeated.
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