This is an analysis of the poem Impromptu On Mrs. Riddell's Birthday that begins with:
OLD Winter, with his frosty beard,
Thus once to Jove his prayer preferred:... full text
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccdd eefffXgg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11000101 11010101 101110101 01010101 11011101 11011101 110111110 110101010 1011101010 010101010 11111101 11010011 110111011 01101010110 101001111110 110101010
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 304
- Average number of words per stanza: 52
- Amount of lines: 17
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; me is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word give is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines me is repeated).
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