To A Child Of Quality, Five Years Old, The Author Suppos'D Forty by Matthew Prior: poem analysis

This is an analysis of the poem To A Child Of Quality, Five Years Old, The Author Suppos'D Forty that begins with:

Lords, knights, and squires, the num'rous band,
That wear the fair Miss Mary's fetters,... full text

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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: 111100101 110111010 01010101 011101110 11010111 11111101 111101011 01110001 110011010 01111101 110101110 11111111 11110111 01010111 11011101 01010101 11011111 1101010110 111011001 111101010 11011111 01110101 11110111 11110101 111100101 110111110 11101101 110101010
  • Amount of stanzas: 7
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 147
  • Average number of words per stanza: 27
  • Amount of lines: 28
  • Average number of symbols per line: 36 (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; for is repeated.

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