This is an analysis of the poem To A Lady Who Commanded Me To Send Her An Account In Verse that begins with:
How I succeed, you kindly ask;
Yet set me on a grievous Task,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabb ccddee ccccffgghhii dd jjdicc ddffccdd kkgX cchhllmmcc ccddeecc nn mmccddccdi ggmmmmooppmmnncc mmmmhh ddeegg hheemmccqqeeoo llcc ffccmmeXcccceegg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,6,12,2,6,8,4,10,8,2,10,16,6,6,14,4,16,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11011101 11110101 11011001 010010111 11010101 11010011 01011101 11010101 01010111 11011101 10011101 10101101 10010101 11010001 11010101 11110111 11110101 11110111 01001111 11010011 010101110 111111010 010010111 10110101 110000101 11011001 11010111 11111100 11011111 11010011 110010101 11010101 11111101 10110111 11010101 11110101 110111111 010111011 01010101 01111101 11110111 011001110 01111101 11000101 11110101 01110001 10010101 11110001 11110101 11010011 010101001 110011001 11000101 11110101 01010111 11111111 011111010 010100010 01000111 01010101 011101010 110100010 01111001 11001101 11110101 11010011 11100101 11110101 11010101 01110101 11011111 11011100 11010101 11010101 110110111 11010001 10110011 11010011 01010101 11010101 10110101 11111101 111110001 10010111 110101010 110101110 11010101 11010101 01010101 11010101 01010111 11010101 00111101 01110101 01010111 11010111 11111101 11010011 11010111 01111101 11110111 11110111 11101 10010101 11010111 11110011 10110101 11010001 11011101 100011111 1111111 01110101 11010111 11011101 10011101 11101101 01010011 11101111 11011101 11011001 100100111 0101101 01010111 11011101 11111101 11100100 11010101 11011111 01110101 11110011 01010001 01100101 010101001 01011101
- Amount of stanzas: 17
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 264
- Average number of words per stanza: 50
- Amount of lines: 134
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, he, her, nor, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words i, her, who, you are repeated.
The author used the same word now at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines me is repeated).
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