This is an analysis of the poem An Elegy On The Glory Of Her Sex, Mrs Mary Blaize that begins with:
Good people all, with one accord
Lament for Madam Blaize,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab caca bdbd ebeb fcfc agag chch
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 01010101 011101 11010001 011101 01010101 111101 11010101 110101 11010001 0101010 11010101 0111110 11011101 010101 110100001 111101 01111110 110111 01011100 111101 110111001 0101111 01011111 0101010 11010101 111111 111101001 111101
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 125
- Average number of words per stanza: 23
- Amount of lines: 28
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; her is repeated.
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