This is an analysis of the poem On The Death Of A Young Lady Of Five Years Of Age that begins with:

FROM dark abodes to fair etherial light
Th' enraptur'd innocent has wing'd her flight;...

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabbccXdeeaaccffaadXggddhhiijjccjjcc
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 36,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: heroic couplets
  • Metre: 01100011001 10101001101 1011000101 110110001 0111010101 1101010111 0100001001 1111000101 11111010001 1101011101 0101110101 1101000101 1101111101 1101010101 10111010101 10111101101 10101100111 10001110001 10111110101 1011101110100 0101100101 1111010101 1111011101 0111111101 1001011111 1111110101 1101111101 1101010001 1001001011 0101111101 1101010101 0111011101 11011111001 1001110101 1011010101 1111010111
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1648
  • Average number of words per stanza: 277
  • Amount of lines: 36
  • Average number of symbols per line: 45 (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; and is repeated.

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