This is an analysis of the poem To Mrs. Strangeways Horner, With A Letter From My Son; that begins with:
O thou, with ev'ry Virtue grac'd,
Adorn'd with Wit, and Sense, and Taste;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccddbbaabbeeXf eeaagg eecXaaeebb hhiibbiieejjkklldkbbiiddbb bbddffiXjjmmbbeeXbbmmmm
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 18,6,10,26,23,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11010101 01011111 10010101 10010101 11111101 11110111 10101101 01010011 11010001 01010101 10110101 01010101 11010101 1010011 010101001 01010001 011101100 11011101 10111101 11001101 11111101 11010101 10011001 11010111 10011011 11010111 110010111 11010100 11111101 11110001 01111101 110011101 11010101 11011101 11010111 01001101 10110101 10110011 10110101 11100101 11010111 11110111 11011111 11101101 01010101 11011101 111101110 111111010 01110111 11110101 11110101 111111010 11110101 01010101 11010111 110110101 10100101 01010101 11010101 01010101 10110101 11000101 11010101 11011101 10010101 01010101 11010101 11010101 01010101 01001001 110100101 01010101 01010101 100010101 11011101 11110101 10010111 11010101 11010101 11010101 11010101 11011001
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 476
- Average number of words per stanza: 85
- Amount of lines: 82
- 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.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; with, in, by, we are repeated.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase still connects the lines.
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