This is an analysis of the poem Her Right Name that begins with:

As Nancy at her toilette sat,
Admiring this, and blaming that, ... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabbccddeeffgghhbbXaaaiiccff
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 28,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11010101 01001101 11111111 01111101 11011101 01111101 01010101 01010111 110100101 11010101 001100111 11010101 10010001 01011101 01110111 11110011 110010101 10111111 01110111 11111111 11010101 11011101 11010001 1101111 01010001 11011101 11111111 1111111
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 987
  • Average number of words per stanza: 183
  • Amount of lines: 28
  • 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; nor, how are repeated.

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