This is an analysis of the poem Verses Wrote On Her Death-Bed At Bath, To Her Husband In London that begins with:

Thou, who dost all my worldly thoughts employ,
Thou pleasing source of all my earthly joy: ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabcddeeffggXXbbccddhh
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 22,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 1111110101 1101011101 1101011101 0101010111 11010010101 1011011011 1110100101 111101011 1100010101 1111110111 10101011101 1111110111 1111110101 11010101010 1111010011 1101110001 1111011001 1111011101 1101010011 1111110111 1001011111 1111111101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1012
  • Average number of words per stanza: 183
  • Amount of lines: 22
  • Average number of symbols per line: 45 (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; thou, would are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word thou is repeated.

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