This is an analysis of the poem To A Child Of Quality, Five Years Old, 1704. The Author Then Forty that begins with:
LORDS, knights, and squires, the numerous band
That wear the fair Miss Mary's fetters, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab caca dede bfbf ghgh fbfb ihih
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111001001 110111010 01010101 111101110 11010111 11111101 111101011 110110001 110011010 10111101 110101110 11111111 11110111 11010111 11011101 11010101 11011111 1101010110 111011001 111101010 11011111 11110101 11110111 11110101 111100101 110111110 11101101 110101010
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 187
- Average number of words per stanza: 27
- Amount of lines: 28
- Average number of symbols per line: 46 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- 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; for is repeated.
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