This is an analysis of the poem To A Lady On Her Remarkable Preservation In A Hurrican In North-Carolina that begins with:
THOUGH thou did'st hear the tempest from afar,
And felt'st the horrors of the wat'ry war,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaaabbccddeeffggbbbbeehhbbbbiiaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 32,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 1111010001 1101000101 0101110101 10110111001 1111000101 0101001101 0101010001 11010101001 11000101001 0100100101 1001101101 11010110101 0101011101 1001010101 1011010101 1101010100 1101001101 0101011101 1111010001 1111000111 1001010001 1011110001 0101100101 1101001101 0101110101 100010011101 1111011101 0101111101 11010001001 0111011101 1111011101 1101000101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1397
- Average number of words per stanza: 238
- Amount of lines: 32
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- 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; of, to, and, thy are repeated.
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