This is an analysis of the poem Written For My Son, In A Bible Which Was Presented To Him. that begins with:
Welcome, thou sacred, solemn Guest,
Who com'st to guide me to the Blest....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccddeeaaee
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic tetrameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 10110101 11011001 11000101 110100011 11001101 11111001 11111111 11010101 010011111 11011011 01111101 01000101 11010101 10010011
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 483
- Average number of words per stanza: 89
- Amount of lines: 14
- 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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More information about poems by Mary Barber
- Analysis of To Mrs. Strangeways Horner, With A Letter From My Son;
- Analysis of On Imagining A Friend Had Treated The Author With Indifference.
- Analysis of To A Gentleman, Who Had Abus'D Waller.