To Miss Hickman, Playing The Spinet by Samuel Johnson: poem analysis

This is an analysis of the poem To Miss Hickman, Playing The Spinet that begins with:

Bright Stella, form'd for universal reign,
Too well you know to keep the slaves you gain; ... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabbbaaaccddeefeffgg
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 20,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 1101110101 1111010111 1011100101 1001110101 1101000101 1111010101 11010100111 1101011101 1110010101 10010100101 01010100001 1111011101 110011101010 11010101010 1101010101 11011101010 1101000101 0101010101 01010100001 1101010101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 870
  • Average number of words per stanza: 148
  • Amount of lines: 20
  • Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • 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; we is repeated.

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

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