This is an analysis of the poem An Epistle To A Lady that begins with:
In vain, dear Madam, yes in vain you strive;
Alas! to make your luckless Mira thrive,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabb ccddbbcXeeffbb ccbbffffccffff ffddffbbggff ccbb bbhhdXiiffbbeejjhh
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,14,14,12,4,18,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 0111010111 0101110101 1101010001 1101010111 1101000011 0101010101 11001110111 1101110101 1101110101 1011010101 111101101 110101010110 1111001101 1101011111 1101110101 01010100101 1111010111 1101100101 110111101 1111011111 1101110101 1101010101 1111001101 1101010101 1011100001 1011011101 1101010111 1101010101 0111010101 1011010101 1101010101 0101010101 1111000101 1101010101 0101010001 1001011111 1111010101 11011101010 0101001101 1111110101 0101010101 1111111101 1111111101 0101111101 1100010101 1101010111 1001000101 0111010101 1011010101 1011010111 0101010101 1101010101 11110010111 101110111100 1111010101 1010110101 0101000101 0110010101 1111110101 1101101111 1101110101 1101010101 1101110101 0101001101 1011110101 1011010101
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 481
- Average number of words per stanza: 88
- Amount of lines: 66
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (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; and, to, her are repeated.
The author used the same word but at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of An Epistle To A Lady;
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