This is an analysis of the poem To A Lady With Child That Ask'D An Old Shirt. that begins with:
And why an honour'd ragged shirt, that shows,
Like tatter'd ensigns, all its bodie's blows?... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabXbbccaa ccaaddee
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,8,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 11110010111 1101010101 1001001110 00010101110 10001110011 1001001101 1111110100 0111010101 1101110011 11110011101 11010110100 1001101110 0011001101 1111111111 1101000111 11100011101 1111010111 1011010101
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 401
- Average number of words per stanza: 77
- Amount of lines: 18
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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