This is an analysis of the poem To A Lady In The Spleen that begins with:
Why, lovely Lelia, so depress'd?
With wonted Smiles your Eyes adorn;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab cbcb dede fcfcXcdcd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11010101 01011101 11010011 11110101 01100111 11011101 01110101 11101101 10100101 10010101 11110101 01111101 11111101 01111001 010111001 01010111 10110101 11010101 010100101 11011101
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 139
- Average number of words per stanza: 24
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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