This is an analysis of the poem To The Right Honourable The Countess Dowager Of Devonshire, On A Piece Of Wiessen's that begins with:

Wiessen and nature held a long contest
If she created or he painted best;... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabbacacddXXcceeefXggddhhbbiiXXjjbbbddkkkkkkccddjjccgggbbff
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 59,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: heroic couplets
  • Metre: 1011010110 0101011101 0101010101 1111011101 01101010101 0101111111 1111110101 0101010101 1111001101 0101010101 1110110110 1010110100 11011110101 1101010101 1011010001 0111011111 1101101101 00110100111 0101110100 0111011101 10001100111 01001010101 1101010111 010010111001 11110111011 1101011101 1111011111 01001011101 0111010111 0111110010 1111110110 1111010101 1101010101 1111001111 10101110101 0101010101 1101010101 1101010101 11010111001 00010010101 11110101110 11110111010 0101011101 11010001001 1011101101 10001110101 0111110111 1101110101 1101011101 1101110111 1101110101 1011001111 11000110101 1101010101 0111110101 1101001101 0111111111 1101010101 1101110101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 2605
  • Average number of words per stanza: 456
  • Amount of lines: 59
  • Average number of symbols per line: 43 (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; they, his, every, all, their, to, and are repeated.

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