This is an analysis of the poem A Letter To Lady Margaret Cavendish Holles-Harley, When A Child that begins with:
MY noble, lovely, little Peggy,
Let this my First Epistle beg ye, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abccXX bbab ddd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,4,3,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110101010 101101011 110111010 011111010 01010111 11011101 11010101 010011111 011111110 111111011 00111101 11010111 11111101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 151
- Average number of words per stanza: 29
- Amount of lines: 13
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and is repeated.
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