This is an analysis of the poem A Lady Who Thinks She Is Thirty that begins with:

Unwillingly Miranda wakes,
Feels the sun with terror, ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abab cdcd Xebe fgfg ghgh hihi
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 01000101 101010 1010111 1000010 01000101 0111110 1011111 0101010 1010101 101110 1010100 0100010 101101 1010011 1110001 0111011 10100011 1001010 1011100 1000110 110111001 1101010 11111111 11001010
  • Amount of stanzas: 6
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 115
  • Average number of words per stanza: 20
  • Amount of lines: 24
  • Average number of symbols per line: 28 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 5
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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