This is an analysis of the poem The Lady A. L. My Asylum In A Great Exteremity. that begins with:

With that delight the Royal captiv's brought
Before the throne, to breath his farewell thought,... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: aaaaXbccddeeXX XXffggXX hheeXi gXiidXjX aaiiddkkjjcclimm aammbbiillhhkXXakkXn jjXbdngXaa ggbbeeoonnooXg
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,8,6,8,16,20,10,14,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: heroic couplets
  • Metre: 0101010101 0101010111 0101111100 11011000100 1011010111 10101110101 1011110101 1101011101 1111101111 1111111001 11010111101 1101011101 1101100110 1111010101 0101110111 1101010011 1101011101 0111110101 1110011101 110111010 11111010110 111101001 1110101111 1101111101 11001000111 0101010111 011011100 1111110101 1111010101 11100100110 1011011101 1011110001 1111010101 1110110110 1101011110 0110000101 1111101111 101001110011 1101011101 110110111001 01001011001 1111010111 1101011111 1111110011 110111101 0101010001 11010001011 1111011101 1111010100 11001101100 11110101001 1011011101 0000010101 10010100101 1010011101 110110011 1111001001 1101010111 11011001101 11000011000 110001110110 00110111010 1101110101 10011010011 1100010100 1111000110 0101010001 0011110001 1001111101 1100110001 1010111101 0101010100 1111110101 1101010001 01010010110 0110110001 1110110111 1101011100 1110110111 1010011010 11111101001 1111001101 1111101101 1101010001 1111110101 0111111101 1111110111 0011100101 1111110111 1111110101 11110100100 1111010100 1100110101 1110110111 1111111110 0100111101
  • Amount of stanzas: 8
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 520
  • Average number of words per stanza: 98
  • Amount of lines: 96
  • Average number of symbols per line: 43 (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; his, to, in, her, and, of, my are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.

    The author used the same word with at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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