This is an analysis of the poem Monody On A Lady, Famed For Her Caprice that begins with:

HOW cold is that bosom which folly once fired,
How pale is that cheek where the rouge lately glisten'd;... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: aaaa baba cdcd eaea fdfd
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 110110110110 110111011010 110111010110 110111010110 01011011001 01011001001 11010001011 1110111001 11011011111 11111011101 11111101011 110111101011 111010111010 11101011101 110010110010 111001011011 11001011001 11001101001 11101011101 11001101001
  • Amount of stanzas: 5
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 189
  • Average number of words per stanza: 33
  • Amount of lines: 24
  • Average number of symbols per line: 39 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; how, that, which are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words how, we'll are repeated.

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

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