This is an analysis of the poem A Black Patch On Lucasta's Face that begins with:
Dull as I was, to think that a court fly
Presum'd so neer her eye;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaabbcccaadddddeeXeeedd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 23,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111011011 011101 11101001 01010011101 0111010001 00111101 11011101 1101100111 1100001 1001 10100101 11010110101 10010111 1101000111 11100010101 101101 010001 1111110 1011011101 11110101 110101 11111100 1011011100
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 920
- Average number of words per stanza: 147
- Amount of lines: 23
- Average number of symbols per line: 39 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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