This is an analysis of the poem Lucasta Paying Her Obsequies To The Chast Memory Of My Dearest Cosin Mrs. Bowes Barne[s] that begins with:

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  • Rhyme scheme: abXbX XXcdc XXdeX Xeded aXfXf aaXaa
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,5,5,5,5,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1 1111011 1101011 110011001 1101101 1 11010100 1110011 110100011 110111 1 11011000 010101 1100001010 1111010 1 11110100 010011 11000100 111101 1 11111010 010101 11100101 010101 1 11111111 111110 11110101 011101
  • Amount of stanzas: 6
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 125
  • Average number of words per stanza: 23
  • Amount of lines: 30
  • Average number of symbols per line: 27 (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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